It's dry...but it could be worse

We could be at Murifield. The Presidents Cup has some really wet, soft conditions. Some of the approach shots aren't even releasing from their pitch marks on the greens and the ones that are have some huge ball marks. I took this picture where it a little difficult to see but the spike marks are terrible...you can see every footprint. I'll take our fast and firm over that soggy and soft any day of the week. I couldn't imagine having a tournament of that magnitude and get that much rain the week of the tournament - you can see that they haven't even been able to mow fairways.

Leak 9

Had to isolate 9 this morning because of this leak near the tee. You can kind of see the turf bubble to the right of the head. This is probably a blown service tee (the fitting that attaches the head to the mainline). Add it to the last for Monday.....

Practice bunker

Still working on the practice bunker at the range. Once we cleaned it out, the edges were pretty screwed up and needed some work. We should have a good chance to knock this out the next two weeks once we get through all
the tournaments.

Irrigation

There's only one employee that enjoys it being this dry and having to spot water every morning....Duff. Lots of heads to chase.

Soil applications

Making an application of a wetting agent and some nutrients today. It's important to keep our nutritional levels where they have to be this time of year to take advantage of some great root growing weather.

The second pic is of the gyp-pot-mag we put down behind the sprayer. This is a combo product that allows us to make one application with one guy and get all the gypsum, pot ash, and magnesium down we need versus making 3 applications with 3 different products (using 3 guys). This is a great product to use outside of aeration to keep the levels where they need to be. When we have holes in the greens I use the three separate products and put them down much heavier.

All of these products have to be watered in to get them into the soil. This is the reason some days you may see us turning on the heads in the morning just in front of play. On days that we are just watering to keep the moisture levels up, I set up the computer to have the heads run at night.

Rolling

A pic of the roller following behind the mowers. The greens are rolling really good and the edges are almost recovered.

Dry!

The course is extremely dry right now. The rough is starting to so dormant early because of the extreme dryness and some really cool nights. This makes for some good playing conditions, just not a real pretty, lush look.

The tees and fairways still look really green because we have better irrigation coverage in the fairways and we also apply wetting agents to these areas to help prevent them from drying out as bad.