While the Spence crew is working on their tasks, we are taking on some in house projects. The first project we took on was improving the turf quality in the drainage work areas on #7. I have had a few questions, mainly toward the end of the summer, why the drainage areas are no longer working. First off, these areas are working! I'll save you the boredom of agronomic jargon of our problem and get to the point. The area became "sealed off" where the water would not soak through the soil. The solution to the problem was to aerify the area to break through the surface. The problem with the solution, was that the turf was not mature enough, so had I aerified the area during the summer, it would have torn up the turf. Simple enough? I hope so! Now that we are into the fall, the turf can handle an aerification. We aerified the drainage areas, along with the rest of the fairway. We then topdressed the areas with our old bunker sand to create channels to minimize the chance of the area sealing off again. The sand was then drug into the holes and we overseeded the entire fairway to promote thicker turf. Hopefully this area will be much better next summer as the turf matures.
Aerifying the fairway
Topdressed drainage area
Area after overseeding and dragging
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what all has been going on with the course. I'll get everybody up to speed over the next few days!
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