We have had some great weather at the beginning of the season. The greens have filled in well and are looking healthy with a good root system heading into the summer. We have had below average rainfall throughout May, therefore we have been regularly watering greens more so than usual. Our tee renovation and nursery construction are complete and with some good weather in June the tees will be playable in early July. Moving forward into June we will be tidying up lots of small jobs and working on providing quality playing surfaces.
#17 Green
Path Work
Part of our capital improvements this year is resurfacing some of our existing cart paths. We have begun preparation on many of the damaged paths and will be paving these areas soon. Our roadway to the maintenance shop that is used to travel from 4 to 5, 10 to 11 and 17 to 18 was the main area that we began with.
Resurfacing roadway
Tree roots compete for moisture and nutrients with our playing surfaces. We have recently been around the property root pruning where we believe the trees are adding stress to the playing surfaces. We stay far enough away to not damage the trees but still help out our playing surfaces. We look forward to seeing the results of this later on in the season.
Root Pruning on the back of 13 tee
Greens Nursery
Our new greens nursery has been completed and ready to begin establishment. Seed and cores from the greens have been applied along with some fertilizer. Our goal will be to have it strong and healthy for the winter in preparation for next spring if needed.
New greens nursery
Greens Aeration
The greens on the course where becoming very firm and infiltration rates where decreasing. When this happens our water, fertilizer and chemical applications become less effective and therefore unneeded stress is added to our greens. Our small tine aeration helps vent the build up of unwanted gasses in the soil profile and a heavy topdressing to fill in the holes provides a good place for further gas exchange. Since we have done the aeration the greens have filled in better and are ready for the pressures to come.
Core harvesting after aeration
Heavy Topdressing
Brushing sand into aeration holes
Smoothing out the playing surface
May Accomplishments
- Finished most repairs on greens
- Mowed and rolled on a regular basis
- Prepared for asphalt
- Asphalted roadway
- Nursery constructed
- 2 tees on 4 and a tee on 9 renovated
- Reshaped edge of 3 pond
- Checked sand depths in bunkers
- Topdressed on Tuesdays
- Aerated greens
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