Well it has been five days since we have aerified the greens and all of the Poa Triv has completely died. The death of the Poa Triv leaves the greens "patchy" until the bermudagrass fills back in which from what I saw yesterday it is doing great. Today, we are going to be fertilizing the greens (granularly) and yesterday we foliar fertilized them. This will promote the growth of the bermudagrass and hasten to fill in.
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| 11's Green Before Sod Work -- Tomorrow |
Sadly, last November we got hit hard by Pythium on several of the back nine greens ... did this affect the bermudagrass ... not directly. Instead thanks to reseeding, spiking in seed and all of the other things we did to recover the Poa Triv for the season is coming back to haunt us now. The same areas that we did the vast majority of the reseeding are the same areas we are fixing now.
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| Bermudagrass is Putting Out Runners |
Today, the sod repair will begin. we will be removing at least part of 10, 11, 13 & 15 in order to prep them for Wednesday when the first sod pick will occur. This will lessen the impact to our membership and our hope is to be almost if not completed by Friday ... Monday at the very least. In addition, we are sharpening the cutting units daily and as the excess sand lessens our quality of cut will increase.
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| Bac of 15's Green -- Sodding Tomorrow |
June's green aerification is always the worse just due to the fact it is the time we transition the greens as well. The only way to lessen this impact would be to not overseed which is not going to happen. Should we go to temp greens? Well that is up to you as the membership but temp greens are normally put in to reduce the damage to an already damaged green ... the bermudagrass is doing great and the Poa Triv is already dead ... thus there is no other further impact.
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| Another Look at 11's Green |
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