Rolling Road GC Golf Course Management

  What a week.  Frosty mornings, blustery winds and well below average temperatures.  Winter weather made an appearance this week but it was short lived with the end of the week more seasonal.  The team braved the wind and cold and had a great week.   With the forecasted freezing temperatures, the team started off the week removing all flowers around the property and cleaning all mulch beds.  With frost every morning the team started edging cart paths.  They completed the back 9 and most of the front 9 this week.  We will be finished this project early next week.   The team completed deep tining fairways early in the week.  Once fairways were finished they moved to deep tining all tees and practice fairways.  We are very pleased with the results and we hope to start round 2 of deep tining soon.   This week the team knocked out our first drainage project of the off season on hole 6.  We started with  som...

  Now that days are shorter and weather is changing the team switched gears this week and started tackling our winter work list.   This week the team started the process of deep tining fairways.  This is a long process with the average fairway taking 2.5 hours to complete and some fairways taking up to 4 hours.  Standard aerification only punches about 2 to 3 inches deep, so the deep tine allows us to go deeper to fracture the layer caused by standard aerification.  This is our first round of deep tining with the target depth around 5.5 inches.  Our goal is to be finished the first round early next week and complete a second round later this month with a target depth of 7 inches.  Also this week the team completed a deep verti-cut on all tees.  Once the verti-cut was complete the team spent hours cleaning up the debris.  This process allows us to remove thatch tied up in the top 1.5 inches to help with water infiltration and thatch dilut...