Course Update – August 19
The wet month of August continued with another 1 inch rainfall this past Sunday night. The golf course is beginning to fall behind in grooming and mowing practices with the repetitive heavier rain events. This accompanied by the loss of maintenance Monday to the long weekend last week and a large corporate event this past Monday has the Turfcare team behind in many aspects of maintenance. Greens being the most important we are now well behind in cultural practices. Ball roll will not be as true and greens as fast as we would like this time of year. The lack of topdressing, the inability to control moisture means until we have a window of time to resume with cultural practices and get cooperation from Mother Nature we can expect them to be softer and slower.
Rough is growing fast with the abundance of rain. We are doing what we can to keep up with it. This week we will be doing laps around each hole to keep the immediate play areas as groomed as possible as we will not have the time to complete the rough program across the course. With more forecasted rain late in the week we will push to mow as much as we can. When we are this saturated mowing practices are reduced to minimize negative impacts from the equipment and reduce the amount of repair work required. Once we have a dry stretch of weather and the ground conditions improve we will regain control of the grooming practices across the property.