Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

  What an interesting week.  Multiple rounds of strong storms, summer heat, smoke and even a touch of early fall.  It was a very busy week for the team.   The team started off the week cleaning up from the strong storms we had over the weekend.  The storms not only brought some much needed rain but also very strong winds covering the course in debris and even bringing down a couple trees.   It was a busy week for the sprayers.  Normal scheduled sprays were completed on greens, tees and fairways.  Rough was sprayed this week and an emergency Dollar Spot spray was needed after all the rain.   The team also found time do compete another round of spot spraying in the Native Areas around the course.   Before another round of storms the greens were spiked, top-dressed and the sand was brushed in.   We continue to have an issue with water coming onto the property from Rolling Road.  With no help from the state...

  Another busy week at the Club.  The team hit it hard this week completing all weekly tasks and dialed in some details.   The team started off the week grooming and topdressing greens, followed by a wetting agent application and soil spray.  The wetting agent helps with water infiltration and getting the soil spray where it is needed for the roots.     Main focus this week was details around the course.  The team completed a full bunker sand check, removing any grass runners on the edges and blowing sand splash on the faces.  Also this week the team was back trimming fence lines around the property.     With the lack of rain since Memorial Day weekend, the crew spent a lot of time this week with moisture management.  Tees and fairways were hand watered to help get the moisture consistent.  Headed into the longest days of summer it is extremely important not to have too much water in the soils as well as not to l...

  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...