Green edges

We fertilized greens again last week. I put more of a fast release around the edges, and a controlled release on the rest of the greens. My intension is to give the edges a little more help growing and helping to completely recover after the summer. You can see a greener ring around the outside.

The greens are in fantastic shape and have been rolling really well. Gotta love this time of year.

I'm really looking forward to next year. We have the edges completely recovered and that will allow then to gain some maturity through the fall, winter, and spring. This should set us up nicely for next summer.

Brushing greens

The greens are still a little softer and slower due to all the rain we got on Wednesday. We brushed the greens in front of the mowers today. This helps to stand all the grass up before cutting, eliminating the amount of leaf blades that are laid over. This tends to slow the greens down a little the day we do it, but will result in true rolls and faster speeds in the next couple days.

Cart path on 14

We are working on fixing up the turf and drain along 14 cart path. There was a drop off and the drain along the concrete needed some love. We are trying to knock out a couple projects like this before the amigos leave for the year. It's a nice time of the year to do stuff like this because the grass isn't really growing that fast.

Greens

Topdressed and put down some Potassium and calcium on Monday. The topdressing helped firm up the greens and make it easier to keep them a little faster. The sand helps keep them from getting to puffy.

Greens

The greens are looking pretty good. There is still very little new root growth. They are still a little slow because I'm really trying to get them all grown in and full for the winter. The faster I can get these edges completely filled in, the sooner they start maturing making it easier to keep them consistently faster than what the currently are.

The increased amounts of fertilizer makes them grow a little faster than normal. I have them under growth regulation, but I haven't started using the stronger regulators because I don't want them on any of the edge areas that we are trying to grow in.

We mowed and rolled this morning but can only mow tomorrow because we have to mow out all the short grass. This doesn't leave us enough guys to roll. We are scheduled to double cut on Saturday and mow once on Sunday. They should keep decent speed through the weekend.

A light topdressing is needed to help them firm up and keep speeds up. We will be doing this on Monday.