Tuesday, October 18, 2011
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| #1 Green |
Greens are progressing beautifully. We are at our winter height of cut and finalizing any topdressing, fungicide, and fertility applications. Every green has full coverage outside of a few blemishes on the on deck putter and the clubhouse putting green. We will continue to improve those areas but the 18 greens on the golf course are our main priority.
Stan Zontek, our USGA agronomist visited yesterday to follow up on our progress. Stan agrees that the greens are progressing well for their age and will only improve over the next few weeks of good growing weather. The greens were
topdressed and received a gypsum application yesterday and will receive an application of organic fertilizer today. Other ongoing projects include irrigation head leveling, bunker renovation, fescue seeding, leaf removal, and cart path improvements. Once the golf course is open and the leaves start to fall, the majority of our focus will shift to leaf removal. When temperatures drop in December, the focus will shift to tree work, winter weed eradication and other winter projects.
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| We finished this bunker on #9 last week |
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| Besides wreaking havoc on our irrigation system, the recent lightning storms have left some unique damage to our trees. |
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| Areas where we had poor seed germination have been tilled, soils amended and reseeded. |
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| Great germination and new growth to the left of #9 cartpath. |
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| Over time irrigation heads settle and the continual topdressing of fairways makes them sit too low. Our staff is leveling the irrigation heads that are too low. |
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| Installing rock and cement to limit cart damage around sharp turns in the cart paths. |
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| #9 Green |
