Week of Aug. 22nd
The last full week of August!!!!!!!!! Summer is not over yet. We had heat and humidity for the start of the week. We missed all the rain and now here comes more heat and less humidity. Missing the rain early this week was unfortunate. The course is holding up well but now - with the humidity dropping and the temperatures back in the 90's - we will see our roughs and fairway edges start to struggle again.
On Monday we started off mowing all short grass areas. We gave the greens a much needed break and just applied a soil spray.
Also on Monday we had the MSGA course rating team out to re-rate the golf course. They were blown away with the conditions of the course and all the renovations we completed last year.
On Tuesday morning after the greens were cut we applied a light topdressing to all greens. The crew dragged the sand in and watered in the topdressing and the soil spray from Monday.
I told everyone in last week's blog that I would jinx it by saying it was a light irrigation repair week. Well here you go - 2 days into the week and 3 new irrigation leaks. Eddie and Raul finished all 3 leaks by Tuesday morning and (fingers crossed) there will not be many more this week.
Like we said in the beginning of this week's blog, with the dryer weather the edges will become an issue. So on Tuesday and Wednesday Matt and the team tried to get ahead of the weather and started working on the fairway edges applying wetting agent through the hose to help break soil tension so that the edges will accept water a little easier.
The painting contractors have moved to the other side of the clubhouse this week. It is amazing what a fresh coat of paint has done for the exterior of the clubhouse.
Thanks for reading.