Water

Watering in a fungicide for spring dead spot this morning on 1.

Tees

We topdressed tees and had a guy go around and drag in the sand. This is the reason they are tufted up and not smooth. I watered them last night to help work in the sand, and we are spreading fertilizer and spraying a fungicide for spring dead spot on them this morning. We will get them mown tomorrow.

Leaks

A full day of leak repair today. Got 3 completed.

Pest and fert applications

We have had a lot to do the last week. This time of year we have to get down a lot of things in a short amount of time - and being a holiday week where we lost Monday doesn't help either. We are putting down pre-emerg around the greens, fairways and tees for winter weeds (poa), we are making fertilizer applications on fairways, approaches and tees, and still have to apply a fungicide on all the tees, approaches and some fairways for spring dead spot. This is a disease that we see in the Bermuda in the spring (18 fairway gets it bad every year).

We have also done a medium topdressing on the greens to get them ready to be really good this fall. The tees were also topdressed for the last time this year.

All this chem, fert, and topdressing has put us behind with mowing rough this week. We will try to get it all done before the weekend.

Greens

The greens are still looking pretty good after a few days of hot and humid weather. They really haven't improved in the last few days but that's to be expected with the heat. We really need soil temps to drop into the 60's before we really start to see some fast improvement of the edges. Right now we are around 75. It takes prolonged cooler weather to even drop the soil temps just a few degrees.

We will put a light topdressing on them today which will help the speed and firmness.

Weepers weepers everywhere

Yet another weeper. This one just popped up on 8. The foot valves on these heads are what cause them to weep. Once the 25 year old valves are replaced in these heads, it usually takes care of the problem. Sounds easy enough....but there are over 1000 heads on the course and to change out these valves you have to isolate the entire hole, drain all the water, replace the valve, then pressure the hole back up. If your flying and on a hole where all the valves are working, you can change one in about 30 minutes.

Fairways

The fairways look better than they ever have this time of year. The verticutting that we did this year is really paying off. Usually they get puffy and scalped this time of year but the verticutting has really helped to tighten them up.