Wednesday, July 13, 2011
We are currently wrapping up a few projects on the golf course and are on schedule to finish all of our goals for these closed days. Our staff vented and topdressed greens on Monday. We also finished all tee, approach and fairway topdressing as well as tee, approach, bunker complex, and fairway fertilizer applications. We edged yardage markers, bunkers, sprinkler heads and worked on liner in two bunkers. Harmon Turf Services completed the solid tine aerification of the tees, fairways, and approaches. McDonald and Sons has prepped and sodded around the areas on 13 and 6 while our staff has sprigged, fertilized and applied a pre-emergent herbicide to these areas. These sprigged areas will be very wet over the next few weeks as the grass establishes. McDonald and Sons will be wrapping up some other small sod work between now and Friday. Most of these agronomic processes can be better explained here. We greatly appreciate the inconvenience in the golf calendar for these necessary agronomic practices. Thank you.
Numbers for the week
Total Golf Course Management Staff Hours on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: 810 hours
5000 pounds of sand applied to the greens
450 tons of sand applied to the TifSport tees, fairways and approaches
8000 lbs of fertilizer applied to TifSport tees, fairways and approaches at a rate of 1 pound of nitrogen per thousand square feet
87,120,000 holes as a result of tee, fairway, and approach aerification
21,000,000 very small holes as a result of greens venting
123,120 square feet turfed by the end of the week with either Sprigs or Sod
1600 Bushels of Sprigs spread by hand
Sprigs cost 4 cents per square foot compared to 29 cents per square foot for sod
Pictures from Today
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| Tractor: 6 Months Old; Bermuda King Sprigger 32 years old |
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| Finishing Prep to #6, these areas have been sprigged and fertilized. The sprigs have to stay very wet in order to survive so please be careful walking into these areas. |
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| Spreading Sprigs by Hand. The Bermuda King will then be run over the sprigs to drive the sprigs into the ground for good soil to sprig contact. |
