Please forgive my absence in updates. I let myself get too busy in May and forgot to update. Thanks to those of our golfers that have asked about the updates and prodded me to get busy.
It's been a rainy trend this week. Let's hope for a drying trend this weekend so that we can all enjoy the golf course!
This week we started edging our greenside bunkers. Nipping off the runners that are growing into the sand. We'll follow the edging with some non-selective herbicide to maintain these edges longer. Manually edging bunkers takes a solid 60 - 80 man hours and the herbicide helps to delay the frequency with which we have to edge.
Some of you will notice that the area between 10 and 16 as well as to the right of 10 is off color and getting a little thin. We sprayed an herbicide to control bahiagrass and plan to continue the application throughout the golf course in our minimally mowing areas and under the pine trees. This herbicide will help to keep the seedheads at bay for several weeks and allow us to focus our labor on the middle of the golf course instead of the areas so far outside the fairways.
We have a few upcoming events planned for next week: topdressing greens, removing weak/dead/fall hazard trees, and demonstrating an aerifier from Toro. We will be punching very small quarter-inch holes in the putting green. These will be similar to the size of holes we punched back in March...minimal disturbance and quick recovery.
