COURSE UPDATE
Aerification has been completed and the Golf Course is in recovery mode from the August
Aerifiction. Greens are on schedule with
healing and we are going to being cutting them on a daily basis. Following aerification we have to discontinue
our normal mowing practices due to the amount of sand on the greens. The sand topdressing will dull the mower
blades therefore we decrease the frequency in which we cut them to try and
salvage the mowers. We also have to
wait until the greens are dry to mow them because the wet sand will stick to
the mowers and reels and will expedite the dulling of the mowers.
We realize
that aerification is never a popular maintenance practice but it is a necessary
one and there is never a good time to complete this task. We currently aerify three times a year. We punch very small holes in early June with
bigger holes being utilized in August and November. These practices are essential to the health
and playability to our putting surfaces.
The August aerifiction is our most aggressive aerifiction due to the
fact that everything is actively growing and will recover quickly. We also have the full force of all of our
summer staff to help with the process, which allows us to perform this process
quickly and effectively.
Our plan
the remainder of the week is to mow and roll the greens everyday through
Sunday. This should result in a
significant improvement to greens over the next few days. The process and mowing schedule used this
year following aerification is the same that we have used in previous
years. Recovery for this process is
essentially two weeks. Now that we are
beginning to get a better quality of cut on the greens we will see rapid
improvement over the next few days.
Thank you
for your patience and understanding during this time,
Gregory Boring,
Golf Course Superintendent
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