Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

  What a season it has been.  It is crazy to think that after record rainfall early this summer, we are now talking about droughts.  August 2025 will go down as the driest August of all time.  Here at the club we have only received 0.09" of rain for the entire month.  This season is Top 3 toughest seasons that I have been involved in.  After making it through some of the worst summer wet and hot conditions I have seen only to have Mother Nature finish the summer off in a drought.  I can't express how lucky we are to have such dedicated staff.  Once again the team had an amazing week fighting through hose work and getting all normal weekly task completed.     The staff has done an amazing job with moisture management this week.  The team started off every day with prepping the course for the day and - with the low humidity, wind and lack of rainfall - this has been a challenge.   All weekly details were completed this ...

  What an amazing week.  The team knocked it out of the park this week and took advantage of our 3-day aerification closure.   Here are some pictures of the team hard at work punching greens, tees, approaches and practice areas.  The team also took advantage of the closure and sprayed wetting agent on greens, tees and fairways.  Also we were able to sneak in our monthly rough sprays.   Even with all the punching and cleanup the team was still able to get some detail work in: trimming creeks, clubhouse areas and spot-spraying native areas.   After greens were punched we went after the stubborn area on 16 green.  The team stripped the dead turf, removed the contaminated soil and replace the area with fresh turf from the nursery.  With the limited play this week we decided to spray out the new native area behind the 6th green.  This area will be roped off and restricted from cart traffic while the non-selective herbicide work...