SKUNKS

Mama skunk and her 3 babies

Memorial Day

I hope that everyone has a fun and safe Memorial day weekend! But most importantly lets not forgot all the service men and women that died for our country and freedom!

A Mild May

Mother nature has treated the golf course quite well this month. Are high so far has only been 93 and the average high has been around 75 degrees. This weather has brought a perfect growing condition for both warm season grasses and cool season grasses. While the greens are still rolling almost a 12, the kikuya in the fairways is flourishing with growth. We have had a great conditions throughout the past few months and we hope for the best going into summer.

Thank you members and guests

Over the past month I have been receiving many compliments about the golf course.It has a lot to do with growing conditions and mother nature. But the compliments do not go unnoticed and without my dedicated staff we would not be able to deliver the quality that the members and guests play on. My team has a total of 170 years employed at the club. So the next time you are out playing stop one of the crew members and tell them thanks for all they do here. Thanks, John Hardin Golf Course Superintendent Canyon Crest Country Club

Time to verticut

Our greens are starting to grow again. With the weather being mild and good morning temps it has produced more yield of grass clippings. When this happens we verticut as needed. Instead of a greens mower mowing the tips of the turf, the vericut unit goes into the turf and takes out excess turf build up. That build up is called thatch. We do not want a thick barrier of thatch because of many reasons. A few reasons is because it becomes almost impossible to break the barrier with water and the water simply runs on top of the turf. You always want a good infiltration rate and this is another reason why we consistently topdress with light sand as needed. The sand goes into the cracks of the open turf and helps with the firmness of the greens. There are several reasons but know that the greens are great right now. The greens are currently rolling 11.8 feet and that is 1.5 feet faster than they were last year at the same time.

Golf car traffic

This is a re-post from a few weeks back. The areas that had ropes, stakes, and chains "seem" to be holding with traffic. Please adhere to the following. Important Notice: The Ropes and chains that are used to control golf cart traffic have been removed from the course. Please read the following to understand how we will be directing cart traffic from this point forward. We will be putting a white line in front of the greens that is going to be used to keep carts from driving to close to the greens. As a reminder in the Canyon Crest bylaws it states "no cart should be within 30 feet of any green, tee or bunker, and all par 3's are to be cart path only". When entering/exiting the fairways, we ask that carts enter/exit near the green poles with the white tops.They are located on every hole that allow cart traffic on the fairway and are moved by golf course maintenance in order to keep the same parts of the golf course from wearing out.

unexpected rains

Last week their were two decent days of rains with totals just over a 1/2 inch. The golf course has not been irrigated since this past Wednesday and greens are still rolling around 11.5 feet.