Week of April 27th
What a great last week of April and the start of a new month. This week the maintenance team absolutely crushed it. Not only did the team complete spring aerification, the parking lot was sealed and restriped this week and more pre-summer applications were applied. Spring aerification went very smooth even with battling cloudy conditions, some rain and equipment breakdowns.
With the sun shinning on Monday the team was able to put a huge dent into greens punching. They started off with a heavy coat of sand on all the greens.
The SR 70 Deep Tine attachment followed close behind the sand application to punch 1/2" holes, 7 inches deep to break up the clay layer in the greens. This process used to be contracted out but with the continued investment by the membership we now can complete this process in-house.
Following the Deep Tine process we used our two smaller aerifiers to punch a 3/8" hole while removing the material.
Once the removed cores were dried out, we dragged the cores and sand around to break up the plugs and incorporate the soil with the sand. Once dragging was completed, the sweep and fill brush was used to introduce the material back into the holes.
The final steps were to blow excess material off the greens, followed by rolling and a wetting-agent application.
While greens aerification was underway, the parking lot was sealed and striped. This project turned out great and was much needed to give the parking lot a fresh look.
Once the greens were complete, the team switched gears and completed all the fairways on Tuesday and Wednesday. This process did not go as smoothly as the greens - fighting some rain and continued breakdowns. Our 20-plus year old aerifier fought us the entire process, breaking down 4 times.
All-in-all it was a great week and we are lucky to have such a hard-working team. For the remainder of the week the team will be focused on details that were skipped in the first half of the week, and getting the course ready for the weekend.
Thanks for reading.