Nutsedge

With all this wet weather we were having the Nutsedge is really staring to take off. We have to try to get out a few tanks of herbicide a week - it very difficult to spray that much acreage in front of golfers in just a few days.

If you have it coming up in your yard we sell Q4 at the shop to take out most weeds.

Aeration

All the aeration and topdressing was completed yesterday. We used a solid tine and a medium topdressing. They should be healed up in a few days. We will mow for the first time tomorrow.

This is a picture of nutrients going down. I like to take advantage of holes in the greens - it helps to get the fert particles down to the soil. We are putting down Calcium, Magnesium, and Potassium.

Course conditions

The course has recovered well from all the rain we had on Thursday. The Bermuda is starting to look really good and the different mowing patterns are defined nicely (rough, to step cut, to fwys). 

The greens are really starting to mature and get really tight. We are getting rid of some of the fatter leaf blades and they are standing upright and becoming more consistent on speed. Last 2 days they have been rolling right at 11'. 

Brent Graham, CGCS

Director of Golf Maintenance

Two Rivers Country Club

1950 Two Rivers Rd.

Williamsburg, VA 23185

Office: 757-258-4606

Bgraham@tworiversclub.com

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Irrigation

We fixed 6 heads that were not working on 18 fairway and this was the last one. Not Fun

Good picture with the storm in the background. We love our irrigation system...!!

Old habits die hard

Here is a pic of 2 green after the shotgun today. It is really important to pick up your feet when walking on the greens.

Target Greens on Range

All of the Zoysia grass on the range will be re-sodded next week.

I wanted to wait and see how they did after some heat and humidity (which we have had) to see if they would come back.

The other Zoysia we did around PG1 was also a little slow coming out but has been coming back nicely. Zoysia is much more sensitive to cold weather when it is new. As you can see the bermuda grass around the greens and throughout the middle of the range has finally started to show some life. I think the difference is that by the time we finished the range it was getting pretty late into the fall - PG1 was sodded much earlier and the Zoysia had a chance to root. It looks like the excessively long winter desiccated that new sod - our winter winds have this effect.

Our new range is coming along much slower than I would have liked but I guess that's to be expected with the poor spring we have had through April.

Rough

This wet weather has really put us behind on mowing - especially rough. I'm glad that we got the growth regulator down on all the short grass last week. This has helped is from getting too behind on tees, fwys, and approaches.

One good thing about the wet, humid weather is that the rough has really started to green up.