Lately with the cooler weather the green speed has been creeping up past 11 and sometimes higher. For the small postage stamp greens such as at Avondale these speeds are too quick and we have been working hard to slow them down. Today, we will be fertilizing them again even after just fertilizing them on Sunday to promote some much needed growth.
Speaking of growth ... with higher green speeds we are forced to use mainly center positions to make them fun for the members of Avondale. But this has an extreme cost ... we are experiencing heavy wear in the center region of several greens (i.e. 12, 5, etc.). The only way to combat this wear until the soil temperatures increase is to use outlying positions ... which are much hated by the membership as a whole. Last Saturday (zone C) we had to do exactly that so we could preserve the center regions somewhat for the upcoming two day ladies event the Eclectic which always requests that we use the same zone for both days.
So what does this mean ... well this means that the zones in general will be switched about to allow this (see the Pro Shop for what the daily position will be over the upcoming week) wear to be evened out. In addition, this means that on the 16th of January (the next time zone C will be used) the most difficult pin positions will be selected. I should note the general there will be some difficult positions here and there selected to preserve the turf until the soil temperatures rise again.
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