Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

Another busy week at the club for the Grounds team.  The team enjoyed crisp mornings and warm afternoons this week.   The team started off the week applying another round of top-dressing to all greens and approaches followed by wetting agent and root application. Once the greens surfaces were dry after the wetting agent application the team brushed in the sand to knock it down into the turf canopy.   All weekly details where completed around the club.   The big project this week was mowing down and harvesting the native areas.  Our Turf Tidy is used in wide open areas. The Ventrac is used in tight areas and areas that have severe slopes.   Once native areas were mowed down we applied our first round of fall/winter pre- and post-emergent herbicides.  This application will kill any summer weeds that popped up and will help prevent winter weeds from germinating.  In a month or so we will do this same process again.   The...

  We turn the page on August this week.  With that, shorter days and dark mornings for the team.  For the first week of September the weather was confused and seemed more like late July.  The team had a very busy week.   With the weather forecast, we started out the week spraying greens and tees with wetting agent to help with water infiltration and uniformity.  Also, moisture management on fairways was a major focus but having the TurfRad was a big help in locating drier areas.   The team battled through some irrigation repairs that popped up this week and will complete all repairs by the weekend.   Detail work was in full swing around the property this week - everything from bunker details, tree trimming and pond work was on the list this week.  This week we had the opportunity to demo a range picker from Toro. This will help keep the warm up range clean and reduce safety risks.  More information to come.   Las...

  Good Bye July and Hello August.  This week started summer aerification.  It was a tough week with heavy rain last Sunday slowing the process down and a monsoon in the middle of the week stopping us in our tracks. Even with the weather not helping, the team did an amazing job getting greens and tees completed. The team had to switch gears on Monday due to the rain.  We usually top-dress and deep tine before we pull cores but the greens were too soft for heavy tractors and top-dressers.  Instead we pulled cores and had to back blow the cores in lines and shovel the cores into carts.    On Tuesday the greens were a little firmer so we where able to get all the greens top-dressed, brushed and rolled.   Also on Tuesday the team was able to complete all aerification processes on tees.   We were hoping to be able to punch approaches and practice fairways on Wednesday but Mother Nature had a different plan.  We received 2 inches of r...

  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...