Greens Work Upcoming

The Light Colored Rectangles are the Poa Annua

Last summer we did some repair on a couple of greens such as 8 and 11 using sod that we got from our nursery on 4 ... unbeknown to us the bermudagrass will filled to the gills with Poa Annua.  About in January the Poa raised it's ugly head but since we were in the heart of the season and there wasn't any clean turf to pull from we couldn't do anything until now.  Starting on Monday (hopefully) we will be working this issues quickly to disrupt our members as little as possible.

The Reason We Verticut -- To Remove the Poa Triv
Light Color Grass is Our Current State of Bermuda on the Greens

I have also been asked why did we switch the aerification dates in June.  The main reason was to provide warmer weather and more time for verticutting which slowly removes the Poa Triv to allow a better recovery of the greens.  In addition, we added the drill and fill to June so our summer members would only have the greens disrupted twice instead of three times thus hopefully increasing their enjoyment.  Sadly, since we are not chemical treating the fairways and approaches this year's transition (is going to happen still) will take two to three times as long than the five weeks it took using chemicals ... but at first will look better.



Nozzling Issues on 12 as the Ryegrass Dies

We have been also facing nozzling issues as the age of our irrigation increases.  Being the furthest holes for the pump station these nozzling problems first start exhibiting on holes such as 11 to 14 and even on 16 and 17.  We will address these nozzle problems the best we can given to limited budget.