Thanks to the weather over the weekend and Monday, I'm happy to report we were able to successfully drag and add some more sand to the greens. Unfortunately though, due to the changes in our original plans, it has left the greens in a really bumpy and uneven condition. This is not uncommon when sand can't effectively get down into and fill the holes. Our strategy now is to verticut the greens and mow them a little closer and apply some growth regulator to try and heal the holes and get the greens to tighten up. It may even require more sand topdressing. One of the problems after aerification is keeping the blades on the mowers sharp in order to make good cuts. This can typically take several mowing attempts until the sand has worked it's way down lower in the canopy of the turfgrass. In the mean time, we do all we can to sharpen and keep trying to make good cuts in order to smooth out the turf. Please be patient as this spring aerification was hampered by some bad weather and it will take longer to get them back into shape.
We've also noticed our old friend fusarium disease pop up recently on the greens. This also is not uncommon after aerification. We anticipated this and applied a preventative fungicide application and it still is showing up. That's how active this disease can be. The good news is with treatments and turfgrass growing faster during this time of the year, it should recover very quickly.
We apologize for Monday and Tuesday of this week when we failed to put some tee markers back out on the tees. This was a mistake on our part. We were trying desperately to finish up sanding and dragging the tees, which requires us to remove them from the tees. We just missed putting them back out on a couple of tees.
Hang in there everyone we will be applying every tool in the tool box to get us back to the greens we all know and love.
