Greens

Just a few days ago I was writing about how good the greens looked......not so much today. The greens have absolutely taken a dive off the cliff. This is a picture of the Buffalo Blower parked on the side of #5 green for some added air movement.

If you look at the areas in front of the fans on #5, 6, and 7 the greens are in decent shape within 15'-20' around the fan. Outside of that area away from the fans are really starting to look bad.

Many of the clubs in the area with older greens are struggling this summer. We are in a little better shape than some of these clubs because our greens just now started struggling whereas other clubs have been struggling the last few weeks.

All these problems with greens stem from the large amounts of rain this month followed by extreme heat. We have had almost 13" of rain this month vs 2.1" last year. Some of the large rain events this month were followed by extreme heat and humidity - thats a deadly recipe on any bentgrass greens in the Mid-Atlantic.