Following the Pro-Am we started aerifying the tees and approaches on the golf course. We choose this time to do this labor intensive and important task for a number of reasons. One, it is the best time of year to aerify and avoid more poa growing into the voids in the turf. Second, our recovery time is very fast compared to moving aerification into October. And third, we have the man power to complete the project and really limit the amount of golfer interruption.
The process starts with pulling the plugs and then backpacking the cores off the rough onto the tee or approach. After some dry time our core harvester picks up the plugs and then we backpack blow off the remaining debris. Then we fertilize and water and the next day we roll if needed and mow.
Our game plan this year was to do about six holes per day starting with holes near the clubhouse on Monday. Tuesday we worked on certain holes to avoid interrupting any ladies and saving certain holes to avoid the back nine senior league shotgun on Wednesday. We did great on Monday and Tuesday but a few groups of seniors did have to fight some plugs on two approaches
Wednesday morning.
Wednesday morning.
Next week we will start aerifying and interseeding fairways and again we will be doing our best to aviod disturbing golfers.
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