On the mend

Hopefully everyone has read the post on what happened to the course after the preventive herbicide was applied.  Well, I'm happy to show you that the course is getting better.  Here is some pictures I have taken to document the progress.

Here's 14 fairway

 

 

 

This is 14 red tee over the last 3 weeks

 

 

 

Some areas were so badly damaged that the chemical manufacturer agreed to pay for complete turf replacement.  This set of pictures is of the left rough on #9 by the fairway bunker.

 

The damage

 

The area stripped of the damaged turf

 

 

The area after new turf sod was installed

 

 



There are several areas around the course that already received, or is on the schedule to receive new replacement turf.  It is taking a little bit to get around to all the severely damaged areas as we are having to strip and lay 6400 square feet of sod a week.  That's a lot of grass.  The really great news as I said before is that the manufacturer of the chemical I used has agreed to cover the cost of the sod.  This week's sod truck will be #3 and we have another to do next week.  Just a reminder that all newly grassed areas are played as ground under repair.

 

You might of also noticed that all of the stripping spoils have been used to do some needed lake bank restoration work. I was planning on doing the lake bank work next summer, but with all of the grass and dirt we are moving around now it just made sense to initiate the project immediately.

 

 

Lake bank falling in due to wind erosion

 

 

A lake bank with the same erosion problem after the sod spoils have been installed.  The spoils will be raked out and tamped to compact.  The intent is to allow the sod spoils to take root and stabilize the bank during the dry season, before any rain or storm erosion takes place.