Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

After a soggy end to last weekend, this week has been a beautiful weather week.  Our team took advantage of the weather having an amazing and productive work week - not only completing all our weekly tasks but they were able to tackle some seasonal and pop-up projects as well.   This week greens, tees, fairways and native areas were all due for spraying.  The team completed spraying everything by Wednesday.   At the beginning of the week the crew completed venting greens with 1/8th inch solid tines, followed by rolling and another round of top-dressing.  With the potential for heavy rains this weekend we are going to try to top-dress greens again at the end of the week.   Once again we continued to work on fairy ring in the fairways.  This week we applied granular wetting agent and granular fungicides to the infected areas followed by heavy watering.  After the water we cut open the turf to make sure the chemicals were getting down to the fairy ring layer and reapplied water as needed.

  What a difference a week makes.  Last week we were battling record high heat and lack of rain.  This week we finally received much needed rain and the temperatures are dropping.  The team was glad to have some time off dragging hoses and they had a very productive week even with some rainy days.     The team was able to knock out detail work early in the week due to the rain.  They completed stream trimming and a complete bunker trim.   The weather reports were calling for some more rain Tuesday evening so we decided to top-dress greens before the rain.   After the storms Tuesday evening dropped over 2 inches of rain we were back to detail work.  We were able to spot spray weeds in the native areas and had 5 irrigation repairs to complete.   With all the heat we had last week and the rain this week we sent the spiker back out on Thursday morning.  This process included a cut of the greens followed by the spiker and finally a roll.  This will help let the greens breathe and dry up.  

  Last week of August!!!!!!!!  Well this week started off cloudy and damp, but ended off sunny, cooler, but dry.  The team had a great week catching up on weekly tasks, working on native areas and preparing for Club Championship Weekend.   We started off the week catching up on weekly details that were skipped last week and normal weekly maintenance.   With the dry spring we had and the dryer weather coming up we work on our fairway edges where our irrigation system lacks the most.  This is Fernando spray only outside the sprinkler heads with more wetting agent to help with localized dry spots.  The team followed the sprayer around and water the product in after the spray.   The big project this week was getting the new native areas seeded.  This process starts with scalping down these areas followed by our debris vacuum.  After the clean up we punch and seeded.   Once the seed is in the ground we come back the following day and spray these areas with a preemergent herbicide to keep th