Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

  Bonus days of golf in February.  The weather this week was great for some golf.  It has thrown the maintenance team some curveballs adjusting projects and practices with this unseasonal weather.  The team had another great week in the shop and out on the course.   The team started off the week laying a truckload of sod repairing cart path edges, miscellaneous areas around the course and the walkways in the new native areas.  Also, I can say this is the first time I have had to have the crew watering sod in February.   We had to adjust with the warmer weather and spray our first Poa seed head application this week.  This is about 2 weeks ahead of our normal schedule.  We are not sure how this weather will affect seed head control this year but we will be keeping a closer eye this spring.   Last week we decided to get a jump start on our Fairy Ring issue we had last year and we continued working on the Fairy Ring this week.  Last week we applied wetting agent to all the effected areas

  Mid 60's and almost 70 degrees this week.  This weather pattern has been different.  I just hope we don't make up for this warm weather with a cold March and April.  The team had a busy week and they are getting excited for the upcoming season.   During the end of last week the crew finished the drainage project on hole 17 and harvested native area sod from around the course to cover up all the drainage work.   On Monday the team started prepping the course for a truck load of sod coming next Tuesday.  We will be sodding the new walking paths through the native areas and miscellaneous areas around the course.   We continued working on new and old course accessories throughout this week and the team should have everything ready to go out on the course over the next couple weeks.   With the warm weather in the middle of the week we were able to sneak in a mow on most short grass playing surfaces.  We even got the first mow on the practice putting green.  The practice green is l

  Another crazy week of weather.  We had it all this week starting out mild, then rain and snow, ending with sub freezing temps. The crew had another amazing week knocking out a lot on our winter work list.   With the mild start to the week the team gave all playing surfaces a mid winter haircut.  We were amazed on how much the grass has been growing throughout this winter.   The crew took advantage of the frosty mornings and some rain continuing to work on our course accessories.  We should have all the course accessories finished by the end of the month.   We continued to work on our winter tree program which is wrapping up quickly.  The team needs another week or so to finish all in-house tree work.   The fence project will be wrapped up by this weekend.  The fence contractor will be pulling the last of the 900 linear feet of fence that was damaged.   Cart path edging continued this week.  The team only has hole 7 left to do which should be finished by next week.   Lastly this week