Mowing greens

We are mowing greens for the second time today. I lowered them to .210" for the second mow. The greens are growing fast thanks to the warm, humid weather we have been having.

I will be working the height down the next couple weeks to get the greens "trained" on growing horizontally instead of just vertically.

10 fairway

Working on fixing the sub-base.

Fairway bunker #10

We started working on the fairway bunker on 10 in-house before most of our staff leaves for the year. I want to try to get the holes with only one fairway bunker completed so we can have entire holes that are finished with bunkers.

Ryder Cup

The greens at Medinah #3 (host of the Ryder Cup this week) are primarily 007 - the same grass planted on our new greens. They planted a mix of 007 and 1119 (a cultivar used more in the Midwest and west). The greens you see on tv will be very similar to ours once they are grown in. Notice the uniformity in color and absence of grain that you often see when the pros are playing on A1/A4.

Irrigation system

Working on another leak at 1 tee. We have been having a lot of leaks on the golf course of late. Almost all of it has been in the smaller 2" glue fittings. These leaks are starting to show up because of the age of our piping and the recent use of the system to water greens. We didn't have too many leaks this summer because we really weren't using the system because of construction and all the rain. Once we seeded and really started using it a lot they have been popping up.

Rip rap 14

Working on improving some of the rock areas on 14 with some of the leftover rip rap from the range.

Range

The drainage , irrigation, and rough shaping has been completed on the range. The rest of the shaping on the range should be completed in the next week or so.