Words can not describe how difficult the week has been because of the wet periods we have had prior to Monday. Typically it takes us about 2 days to completely finish with the greens coring process. But this go around will be much longer. The issue that we run into is that when we clear the cores from the green our first few holes are wet and damp causing the sand / organic matter to cake over the hole. It has been no secret with some of the issues that we have faced every time we aerify the greens. Usually we can blow the holes clean but this time that does not even work. So we have resorted to using shop vac.'s to literally suck out each hole. It sounds crazy and does a phenomenal job and with a few vacuums it does progress but still at a snails pace. You may ask your self why do we go through the trouble of vacuuming the greens and reason is we only aerify twice a year and it is extremely important to get fresh sand all the way down so we can continue to keep the greens healthy for the fall and next year. So as you play you will notice that greens 10-16 and 1 have been completed and we are working on 2-9, 17 and 18 as quickly as we can.
The program for poa control has also come to close as we applied our last application this morning. We will now progress into the restoring phase with seed next week.
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| Picture is after the first few applications |
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| This was taken today on our last application about two weeks from the previous picture, notice again the desirable grass has been unharmed. |
