For those that are still here and have been playing the course I'm sure you've noticed the roughs are still a little scalped. The reason why has to do with the 5 straight days of rain and not being able to mow.
During the course closure I lowered the height of the roughs from 1.5 inches to 1 inch to purposefully scalp the rough down. This is a normal practice during the summer to eliminate the gnarled mess that the rough becomes through the golfing season. The scalping process was successful...and then the rain came and we were not able to mow the roughs again for 9 days. The new 1 inch height had grown to nearly 2 inches by the time my team was able to mow again. When we mowed the first time this week we effectively cut the rough height in half!
The good news is the grass can take the massive reduction this time of year. If I did that in the winter, the roughs would go to dirt and you would probably be asking the new Superintendent to start a blog. The roughs as greening up daily and the more my team can mow themt, the more the grass will be trained to live comfortably at the new height and not scalp.
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