Overseed time again

 

Last Tuesday (9-8-15) we dropped rye grass seed on all of our par 3 tees, par 3 surrounds, the front 2 driving range tees, the driving range targets, and the surrounds on all of our practice greens. This is a little early for us to be dropping seed but with our closed days, upcoming tournaments, and the weather we decided it would be a good opportunity for us to get it out. We got some good rain right behind the seed and it was beginning to grow by the weekend. We got our first cut on it Thursday afternoon at 0.800". Over the next few weeks we will slowly work the HOC down to where it should be. Here are a few pictures of it first coming up and then after the first cut.

The storms of August

Rainfall totals in August are typically around 4", however this past month mother nature felt like we needed a little more. We had a few small storms spread over the first part of the month, then got almost 2" last Sunday (August 23rd) and some bad storms over last week in which we lost a few trees. The big rain maker came this past Sunday though, we got almost 4" of rain in 6-7 hours. That put the total for the month at just over 8". Needless to say the golf course was completely washed out. We spent all of yesterday morning getting bunkers pushed back up and the rest of the day trying to get the beds that washed out back into shape. We are closed today for our regular scheduled close day and hopefully when we open back up tomorrow all signs of a storm will be cleaned up and it will be like it never happened.

The first set of pictures if from last Tuesday. This was the storm that took down some trees.

#18 Cartpath

#17 Green

#17 Green

 

#17 Green after being blown off

 

Between #17 and #18

Between #17 and #18

Between #16 and #17

Between #16 and #17. Shows just how big of a root system this big Oak tree had

Clean up process

Clean up process

This next set of pictures if from Monday morning of this week after the 4" of rain.

#18 after the storm

 

Drain to the right of the parking area at #18 green

#10 Fairway, this picture really does not show how much debris was here

#11

#11 close to green

Bunker behind #18 green, we had already been working on this bunker for about 30 mins when this picture was taken.