Greens predictions.

The greens have looked great lately, but I'm still really concerned with some of the edges (#2,5,11,13,14). I strongly believe that we are still going to have some troubles with these edges again. It comes down to maturity and traffic. The greens are maturing but some of these edge spots are not. They are just filling in from last year. Lee really didn't get any recovery through the cold winter and the spring hasn't been any thing to brag about either. Seems like we went straight to summer. This leaves these spots immature and susceptible to injury.

We have been doing everything possible the last 8 months to baby these edges. We water them different, different wetting agents, no growth regulator, different nutrient program, higher height of cut, modified front rollers to limit shear, etc.

I have started to put up ropes on some of the greens to try and control traffic on to the greens. I would really like to take advantage of the next 15 days and limiting traffic on these walk on areas will help.

We did do 3000 rounds in May! That's an average of 103 rounds a day with only 2 days closed for the month! The traffic is starting to show.