RAIN GOOD VS. NOT SO GOOD

Rain can be good and not so good. The good part for the course was that it was steady, not to damaging, and totaled 1 1/2". The not so good part is the fact that this weekend is one of are biggest events of the year the Member Guest. We hope that the course will firm up by the weekend and most importantly the greens. We will keep an eye out with our moisture meter going in to the weekend to get the greens as firm and fast as possible. We have extra staffing set up this weekend, and should be able to double mow and roll both days. Are greens before the rains were rolling 9.4 and we anticipate getting them to a 10 by the weekend. Just a reminder that greens aerifaction is next week and has been pushed back one day in the process due to the rain. Now being next Wednesday and Thursday. Also the overseeding of the tees has been pushed back one more week to the 29th. We will still be prepping our tees the remainder of time before overseeding. I hope everyone that participates enjoys the condition of the course and the guests especially. We have been very diligent in improving golf course conditions not only from a players standpoint, but turf health as well. Good luck!

Birds, skunks, possums, oh my.....

Over the past few weeks we have unfortunately had a bug problem in the fairways. There are two grubs one called white grub, and the other a bill bug. These are not only detrimental to the tufts that the animals are pulling out and up in the fairways, but also the grubs feed on the root system. We will be spraying an insectidie app tomorrow and this should elimnate both animal activity and kill the grubs. Please take a look at the pictures. If you have any questions in further you know where to find me.

Tee Aerification Prep

Just wanted to give a heads up to everybody about what will be going on for our tees in the next couple weeks. In order to prepare for a successful over-seeding to our tee boxes, a lot of work will have to be done. We will slowly start scalping down all of our tee boxes, almost down to the soil. The tees will all be verticut to go along with the scalping. We will also be spraying a selective herbicide to the tees. All this work is necessary in order to give us a good blank canvas to work with for our aerification.  The tees will still be all level and ready for play, they just may not be looking the best from an aesthetics stand point.  We anticipate by the middle of October our tees will in prime condition.