The next 6 days look brutal. The weather looks perfect for bowling or traveling north. The current forecast is something like 102/71, 103/76, 102/76, 99/75, 97/74, and 98/73. These numbers represent the high and low forecast from Friday June 29 - Wednesday July 4. This is outrageous and extreme but we have been prepping for this summer all season and all week. The putting greens were vented this week and sprayed with preventative fungicides per our normal schedule. A protective product was applied that has a blue tint called Turf Screen. We have used this product this year to combat high temperatures. It is effectively a sunscreen for the turf made up of zinc and titanium oxide. It can lower canopy temperatures by up to 8 degrees. Because the greens were aerated and then vented, oxygen exchange and water infiltration have been excellent. The greens have also been very soft and ball marks have been violent. Thank you for fixing these but realize that we are protecting the plant and its roots first and foremost during this extreme weather pattern.
Sprigging finished up this week. We have about 10,000 ft2 left to sod between 12 and 14 but this will be completed very soon. The sprigs will take about 3 months to fully establish but our heavy rate of application will speed up the process. Please play all of these areas including the sod around the sprigs as ground under repair.
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| Sprigs are spread by hand and then pegged in with the discs of an old sprigging machine. This process is about 1/7 the price of sodding this area and will really improve these areas. |
Have a great weekend and avoid the heat if at all possible,
Jordan Booth
jbooth@willowoakscc.org
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| This is my view from the Loader/Backhoe as Eric and I installed the fan on #15. |
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| Kevin is seen here cutting the trench for the electrical components for the fan on #1. |
