Bunkers

After 2.5" of down pouring the bunkers are destroyed. It will take us a few days to get them all repaired. This type of rain was good for the greens - bad for the bunkers.

Rain

We got just over 1.1" of rain on the golf gourse last night.  A much needed rain that flushed the greens with some clean water and pushed some fresh oxygen into the root system. 

Not a wet spot on the course - it was so dry it sucked everything right up.

Storm Cleanup

The course got trashed last night from tue storm cell that came through. It's going to take us a couple of days to get all the leaves and sticks blown and cleaned up. All for just 0.2" of rain - not even an irrigation cycle.

Windy day

The fireworks were canceled due to the winds coming off the river tonight. We noticed the winds today on the greens - they were drying down pretty fast this afternoon. 10-15 mph winds with high temps results in us chasing our tails during the afternoon handwatering.

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#5 green

Most of the greens look good but #5 is struggling like usual - and that's been with relatively decent weather lately. We've been getting rain with some hot humid days, this combination will usually weaken them. We're not going to roll it with the other greens tomorrow and it will be on a separate mowing rotation for the remainder of the summer. We might only mow the weak greens (5,6,8,13,14) 3 times a week during the summer to give them a chance to survive the summer.

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Red Oaks #14

We have a group of red oaks that are yellowing out on #14. This is a combination of things that include leaf anthracnose, root rot canker, and insects. A sample has been sent away for analysis. I'm working with Bartlett Tree to see if we can save them.

Spraying Nutsedge

This is First assistant Ryan Dwyer spraying nutsedge at the club. Nutsedge is popping up in a lot of areas around the neighborhood because of the recent rainfall. This weed gets worse the wetter it is.

Ryan has been here 3 years total and is my right hand man on the golf course. Ryan worked here for a year or so and left to assist with the grow-in at Vinnitera then was recruted back a few years ago.