Daily Inspections

There's an old saying for a golf course that goes..."The biggest problem with a golf course is that you have to leave it outside." This is so true and is also the reason why it is important to inspect the course every single day!

The picture below is of 15 green. The brown spots around my knife and the flag is from a disease outbreak that occurred Tuesday and Wednesday. We caught it early and sprayed the greens with a fungicide on Thursday to kill the fungus, but this is a perfect example of what can drastically go wrong over night on a course.

Turf fungus is always around, usually kept in check by a balanced environment (and my routine preventative fungicide sprays to keep the scales tipped in my favor). However, on Monday we received almost two inches of rain and that was enough to tip the scales in favor of the fungus. The wet conditions and the cool temperatures were enough to allow the disease to have the upper hand. Thanks to the watchful eyes of Casey and Kenny (one of my assistants and my spray tech), they caught the disease early and were able to take care of it before a lot of damage was done.

If you see me and my assistant out on the course driving around looking like we are just staring at the grass, that because we are! Along with a lot of other things too of course, but our job is to see the problems before you do! With a big work space to cover, that means moving around a lot.