We have finished up the aerification of the fairways and tees today thus there will not be any more aerifications until mid-August. Enjoy the month off from maintenance. In addition, we have just finished the drilling & filling of the greens and by week's end should be close to having the greens at 100% again. Once all of the minor repairs have been completed we will be starting to working on green speed. I should note the recovery time from the August aerification is very quick.
Starting tomorrow we will start the sod repairs around the greens in those areas we believe would not normally recover this year. I have been asked about what is going on in select roughs which it is the transition of the areas we did not chemically treat. They (meaning the roughs) will continue throughout the summer transitioning since they still have ryegrass in them. The good news is the tees, fairways and greens will be completely transitioned within the month. Presently, the fairways are 85 - 90% transitioned and in some cases over 95%.
I am very pleased on how well the transition has gone this year ... much quicker than I thought given the weather conditions in June. It is a time hated by all but good for the overall health of the golf course ... and every golf course I was told was much better (i.e. Desert Springs, Indian Wells CC, Lakes, Bermuda Dunes, etc.) were either in the same condition as us or going to be soon since now of those courses had chemically removed their ryegrass ... thus their transitions are still coming.
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