2nd Assualt, The 100 day war

The second closure of the course went very well.  The entire course was aerified and verti-cut without incident.  Erick has devised a great system of doing the needed agronomics in blocks so that he doesn't get caught by the afternoon rains.  Oh, and it rained everyday...a lot!

I'm extremely happy to report that our rock removal program that has been going on the past two years has been an extreme success.  Most times when we run the fairway aerifier up and down the course, all day long for a week straight, we typically break thousands of dollars worth of parts (all of which are covered by an extended warranty so don't worry) when the aerifier tries to aerify rock.  During this aerification of the fairways we didn't break the machine one time.  In fact, we only had one rock that we could get out by hand.  In years past, we've found rocks so large that even a large construction back-hoe couldn't lift them. 

Everyone knows that July starts our new fiscal, so that means we also start our project season.  Right now we are working on converting the irrigation on 10 tees to smaller sprinklers to be able to control the water better.  Everyone knows how wet it gets between ten tees and 13 green.  Part of the problem was that the large turf sprinkler along the hedge on 10 tees were shooting the majority of the water over the tees, onto the slopes of 13 green.  Now, when the irrigation on 10 tees is turned on only ten tees will get wet.  To help the wet spot at the base of 13 green slope and the cart path we will install some subsurface drainage in that area as well.  Other stuff happening includes trimming landscaping along the perimeter of the property.  Our annual ficus hedge trim is coming up.  This process is important is keep the ficus in hedge form with thick foliage from the ground up.

Sorry I don't have a bunch of amazing photos or videos to show you this time.  Nothing really exciting happened.  We punched holes, cleaned it up, got the course open back up.  I don't know if I'm glad things went so well or disappointed I don't have anything cool to show you.

Maybe next time.