If you've been to the golf course in the last couple of days you will have noticed we aerated the greens with our needle tines and aerated with bigger tines on the collars. The needle tine aerification helps to let air and water penetrate the surface making for better growing conditions. The aerification on the collars is an attempt to alleviate some dry compacted areas and to provide air and water movement into the soil. We will be conducting some additional aerification throughout the golf course where we are starting to see some dry areas forming.
Our irrigation system has flaws and we are actively making improvements and adjustment as we go through the summer months. You may experience some very wet areas out there, primarily around some tee complexes and in the roughs. We are trying very hard to clear these up the best we can. Because the system we have is not a single head control system, it requires a lot of turning on and off sprinklers manually in some areas. Sometimes we don't get it right and we have to make adjustments. There has been some concerns that the course is too wet and I agree, in some areas. Our philosophy is to try and keep the turfgrass in the best possible condition both in color and in turfgrass health. Drying the course out will only invite disease, kill grass, make the course look ugly, and make for recovery in the fall much harder. It will also make it much more difficult for any kind of good playing conditions to exist in the winter months. Also note, that we try and keep the course just a little bit on the wet side going into a predicted heat spell as well. All in all it's a difficult balancing act between too wet and too dry, we strive for something in the middle as best we can.
Please feel free to contact me if there are areas that you have concerns with and we'll do the best we can to solve the problem.
