Spring Aeration Update Part 2

Greens aeration went very well despite the little bit of rainfall the night before we started the greens. The rain after the greens were aerated was very helpful.

Hole#13 green- one week after aeration

Hole #13 green- close-up bird's eye view.

Fairway aeration is under way and we are moving along very well due to the warm and windy weather. We may even be able to finish by the end of this week!

Aerating Hole #2 Fairway

Sweeping Hole #3 Fairway

Hole #18- one day after aerating

Spring Aeration Update

I finally figured out how to make it rain. All I had to do was schedule a greens aeration. Even though we received a few sprinkles yesterday morning, we were still able to aerate 13 greens. However, due to the moisture, we did not topdress yesterday. We will finish aerating the remaining greens today and do our best to get all of the greens topdressed today as well. So, today we will have 18 temporary greens. Hopefully, we will have all 18 greens opened tomorrow morning. As always, thank you for your patience during this very important and beneficial process.

Aerating Hole #5 Green

Harvesting the cores from Hole #5 Green

Aeration holes

Practice Green ready for topdressing

Topdressing Hole #9 Green

Lake Maintenance

As I mentioned in my daily email to the Members yesterday, we are working on erosion control around our Lake on Hole #1, #10 and #18. We recently had some areas of the lake's bank restored and now we are in the process of trying to grow some grass along the bank in order to keep it from eroding again. First, we seeded around the bank and then we installed a burlap fabric over the seed in order to hold the seed in place, provide some shade for the seed and hold in the moisture so that the seed can germinate. Once the seed germinates the grass will grow through the burlap fabric and the fabric, over time, will decompose. We will also be topdressing the seed and fabric with a thin layer of sand to help in the process of growing new grass around the bank of the lake.

Recent Work On Hole # 12 Tee

As we are gearing up for the 2013 golf season, my staff has recently done some beautification work on #12 Tee as well as some needed repair near the steps leading up to the tee.

Back of #12 Tee landscape

#12 Tee

Concrete between the steps

Repaired pothole at the base of the steps on Hole #12

Spring Aeration Schedule

TEE AERATION- March 25-29

We will aerate nine tees on Monday the 25th and nine tees on Tuesday the 26th, weather permitting.

GREEN AERATION- April 1-5

We will aerate the practice green and driving range green on Monday April 1st. We will aerate Holes 1-9 on Tuesday, April 2nd. Holes 1-9 will have temporary greens for that day. We will aerate Holes 10-18 on Wednesday, April 3rd. Holes 10-18 will have temporary greens for that day. On Thursday, April 4th, all greens will be open, weather permitting.

FAIRWAY AERATION- April 8-May 3

Green Aeration

Irrigation Improvements and Repairs

Besides trimming trees and working on drainage, we are also busy adding irrigation heads in areas where we have poor irrigation coverage.

Digging trench for new sprinkler head on Hole #8

We also stay busy repairing the occassional irrigation leak.

Digging up leak on Hole #14

Tree trimming on Hole #5

With the early morning frost delays, my staff has been busy tree trimming. Today we were raising the canopies of the trees on the left side of Hole #5.