Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

  What an amazing week of weather.  We received over 2 inches of rain on Sunday evening and with the temperatures we had this week the course really perked back up.  The crew had a great week.  With Sunday evening's rain the main focus at the beginning of the week was details.  The crew performed sand depth checks on bunkers, and topped off all divots on tees and fairways after storm clean up.    This week we were able to spot spray weeds that popped up in the rough.  The weeds have been a challenge this year because of the hot weather.  Pre-emergent herbicides break down over time by moisture and soil temperatures.  The hot weather this summer has made our pre-emergent applications break down faster this year than during normal years. Also this week the team was able to top-dress all approaches and tees to help with firmness and reduce scalping.   Even with the 2+ inches of rain the team continued to work on the "Localized Dry Spot" in fairways.  We applied another round

  It was a busy week for the team. The weather this week was a nice change - cool mornings and warm afternoons. The team hopes the weather stays this way, but I keep reminding them it's still August.   We started off the week with greens aerification.  The team was able to complete all 19 greens in one day.  They crushed it.  We are happy with the results, and will continue to work on sand and mowing heights through this week.     With all the rain last week one of the team's priorities was getting the sprayers out this week.  The team was able to spray greens, tees, fairway, and native areas.  The dry weather before last week made it impossible to spray herbicides in the native areas due to no soil moisture, so we were happy that we could finally get some of the weeds back under control.     The team found some time in the middle of the week to top-dress some of our approaches to help minimize some of the scalping issues we have been seeing.   Even with greens aerification the

  Last week of July and the start of a new month.  This week dialed up more of the same: Hot and Dry.  As I'm writing this we are currently over 40 days with above 90 degree temperatures and now in a moderate/severe  drought.  A number of storms rolled by the club this week but nothing fell out of the sky, which might be a good thing with temperatures forecasted in the mid 90's later this week and the weekend.  The team has been doing an amazing job keeping up with this weather.  I am very proud of our team and their efforts day in and day out.      The above pictures pretty much sum up what every day has been.  The team has been checking all playing surfaces every morning for adequate moisture to help the plants make it through the day.   We had 3 irrigation breaks that all popped up in one day. Fernando, Eddie and Diego were on top of all needed repairs.    We completed another soil application on greens to keep the Pythium Root Rot in check.  Most areas have bounced back wit