518 Man Hours of...

Last Sunday's rainfall event that totaled 7.1" took its toll on the golf course and on our staff. We spent 518 man hours to clean up silt that overflowed from creeks, restore Bunkers, and remove debris that washed on to our property from who knows where. The entire staff worked extremely hard and diligently to restore the course and to begin prepping for the upcoming week's aerification on the Greens that will officially begin the Greens Conversion. Here are a few pictures that you can compare to last Sundays pictures.

This picture is looking from #17 cartpath towards #17 Tee on the left and #12 Green on the right. This is the standard look that one would see from this view.

This is the same area last Sunday morning during the 7.1" rain event.

This is #6 cartpath as you approach the Green and Bunkers, this was taken on Thursday as we slowly progressed through the course clean up.

Here is the same area from last Sunday, there was approximately 8" to 12" of silt on the cartpath and surrounding turf.

I mentioned above that we began prepping the course for next week's Greens aerification which meant we needed to get the bermuda Tees, Fairways and Approaches under control. We achieve this by spraying a growth regulator that allows the turf to grow laterally and not vertically, thus creating a denser and healthier playing surface. We start by mowing the area to remove the dew and have the turf at its daily playing height, in the picture below we are mowing #1 Fairway at sunrise.

Once the area has been removed we spray the area with a combination of Primo Maxx and fertility to aid in divot recovery. Here is Tim Murdock our Second Assistant Superintendent spraying #3 Fairway. The white dots you see are from our staff using a foam marker instead of a dye, this method is less expensive and there is no staining due to the dye.

Tomorrow is the last day to play on our Greens until after the conversion and this is the only slow thing moving across our Greens in the past few weeks.

We hope everyone has a safe and happy Memorial Day weekend! Thank you for reading our blog and please let us know if you have any questions or comments.