Mother Nature continues to show her teeth with variable weather. This is a very busy week on the course with greens aerification and topdressing scheduled, as well as continued work on seven tee, fairway aerification, and putting down our first chemical applications on greens and fairways. However we continue to be stymied by uncooperative weather, receiving nearly an inch of rainfall Monday night into Tuesday morning. A pattern seems to be developing where we have a rainfall event, followed by a couple nice days allowing things to dry down to allow for more efficient work, only to be followed with another rainfall event. It's rather unfortunate, but we continue to make the best of the situation completing many other essential jobs on the golf course. We managed to get the greens aerified prior to the rain, however in lieu of rain we had to postpone applying topdressing sand. The saturated ground really prohibits effective fairway aerfication. Work to complete the seventh tee has been slow because working with wet soil is an exercise in futility, but it looks like a few good days are on the horizon. The weather is out of our control, but we will continue to work diligently to get everything necessary done to the highest standard.
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Seven green with water shearing off following
persistent rain. |
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The seventh tee turned to a quagmire following
rain which began Monday night. |
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Eight fairway with standing water covering
a good percentage of the landing area. |
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Looking down on the eleventh fairway from
eleven green. |
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