Greens are healing up

We are just over 1 week since our 5/8" aerification and the greens are looking really good. Hopefully by the end of next week we will not be looking at anymore holes and greens will be rolling smooth again.

Below is a picture from Monday of this week (6-23-14). 6 days from aerification.

And here are 2 pictures from today (Friday 6-27-14). 10 days from aerification.

And here is a great view from #9 fairway.

5/8" Aerification

We had a very busy week last week. We double back track verticut greens (2-8) & (4-10), topdressed heavy, aerified greens with 5/8" core tines with core harvesters attachments on, brushed greens with the sweep and fill brush in circles 2 different directions, rolled with the salsco's, the put out a few amendments. We also aerified and verticut all tees. On fairways we spot aerified weak areas and double verticut all fairways and perimeters. We were only scheduled to be closed on Tuesday and Wednesday last week and we felt like this was a lot to get done in only 2 days so we stayed late on Monday and got started behind the last group of golfers that evening. On Monday we: completely finished all practice greens, got almost all greens vericut, 10-14 greens and tees aerified, and 10-15 fairways verticut. We stayed until about 9 PM that night to get all of that done. This was a huge help and we were able to finish everything up on Tuesday. This way we were able to get a few mowings on everything and get everything blown off on Wednesday. Here are a few pictures of the different processes.

Resodding pro tee on #7

This week we stripped and resodded the pro tee on #7. This tee is only used a few times a year. Mainly during the Linger Longer Invitational and this year they will be using it during the Big Break Invitational. This tee is tucked way back in a shaded area and always struggled. We changed it from 419 over to TifGrand.

Article about televised tournaments

The USGA sends out frequent emails on everything related to golf course management, tournament golf, and golf in general. These emails usually have 5-6 articles each and almost always I find that at least one is very interesting or fitting to something that we are going through.  My last email from the USGA was no different. There was an article about the preparation and sheer number of people that go into getting ready for a televised tournament. It does not go into any agronomic practices because they can range so widely from course to course and from tournament to tournament, but it does do a good job of talking about the magnitude that a televised tournament brings with it. Below is a link to the article.


http://gsr.lib.msu.edu/article/moeller-real-5-30-14.pdf