Course Update - Early August

July was an extremely dry month where we saw moderately hot temperatures on a consistent basis, while the irrigation system was being heavily relied on the new VFD drive paid off in huge ways during this seasons dry spells. The small irrigation projects that we completed last fall have also been a huge success this summer. Thankfully August has brought some rain and even better that it followed our dry-ject sand injection of the greens Monday night. For the 4th consecutive August we have dry-ject the greens creating sand filled channels allowing the soil to breath for the remainder of the summer until we implement our aggressive aerification process following the club championship at the end of September. The greens were brushed and rolled followed by over seeding of Crystal Blue bentgrass seed at a rate of 1 pound per 1000 sq ft. I know your saying so what, interestingly there are 8 million bentgrass seeds per pound so on average each green has 40 million new seeds with a chance to develop. We are mowing on our regular schedule with afternoon rolls and dry-mows to maintain smoothness and speeds.

2 days after dry-ject