Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

  Rough start to the week but a beautiful ending.  It was a tough work week with all the rain last weekend, but our team made the best of it and had a very productive week.   Last weekend was not great timing but brought much needed rain to help with the drought.  From last Thursday through this Wednesday the course received 5.2" of rain.  Even with all the rain over the last week we are still in a drought and currently 4" behind for the year.     The team started off the week spiking greens to help introduce oxygen into the saturated soils from the rain.  Also, we worked on texture double cutting green with the groomers engaged.  Groomers help stand up the grass for a better cut and playability.  We will continue grooming greens every week throughout the rest of the spring and early summer.     This week was a busy spray week to help get ahead of Member Guest next week.  All short grass was sprayed with our week...

  Another great week for the maintenance team.  This week brought more below average temperatures and some much needed rain.  Our team had an extremely busy week.   The team started off the week in full detail mode.  On Monday the team knocked out trimming the fence line back.  With the continued investments from the membership, trimming the fence line used to take us weeks to complete, but now with our Ventrac with the Boom Mower attachment the team can complete this task in 1 full day.  We will also be able to keep the fence trimmed more often throughout the season.    Detail work continued on Tuesday, with a full bunker service, creek and pond details.   This week we had our asphalt company out completing much need upgrades to the equipment wash pad area and a new additional cart path between the 14th and 18th tee boxes.     Also this week the team put the finishing touches on the new practice green at the poo...

  What a great last week of April and the start of a new month.  This week the maintenance team absolutely crushed it.  Not only did the team complete spring aerification, the parking lot was sealed and restriped this week and more pre-summer applications were applied.  Spring aerification went very smooth even with battling cloudy conditions, some rain and equipment breakdowns.   With the sun shinning on Monday the team was able to put a huge dent into greens punching.  They started off with a heavy coat of sand on all the greens.   The SR 70 Deep Tine attachment followed close behind the sand application to punch 1/2" holes, 7 inches deep to break up the clay layer in the greens.  This process used to be contracted out but with the continued investment by the membership we now can complete this process in-house.   Following the Deep Tine process we used our two smaller aerifiers to punch a 3/8" hole while removing the materia...

  A taste of Summer this week.  With high's in the 80's and some days close to 90's it felt more like summer this week than the middle of April.  We even broke a couple records this week.  Our team had a great week.   Sprayers were out in full swing this week.  We were able to apply wetting agent to all playing surfaces to help with water infiltration during this growing drought.  Also the first round of pre-emergent herbicides were applied on fairways and tees. High traffic areas and bunker faces were sprayed with fertilizer to increase growth and density, along with normal weekly fungicides and plant growth regulators to tees, fairways and greens.    The irrigation system was put through its paces this week and some irrigation repairs were needed.  All in all the team needed to repair 6 sprinkler heads and 3 pipe breaks.   Greens fans were put back out this week.  We do not anticipate needing the fans just yet but w...

  Another week of temperatures up and down. The only thing we didn't have this week was rain.  The team had a great week dialing in details, playing catch up and even starting a project.   Once the course was prepped for the Monday tournament the team started off the week mulching the property.  They were able to lay 70 yards of mulch Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning.   Details were one of the main focuses this week.  The team trimmed and edged all bunkers,  full course weed eat and power washed the bridges on holes 2 and 3.   Also this week we applied our first weekly nutrient package to the greens.   With the irrigation system fired up last week, we had some issue come up over the weekend.  The team tackled 3 irrigation leaks this week.  The irrigation repair list is short this spring but once we start testing the system more will most likely pop up.   This week we started a new fun project at the pool...