Course Update

The rain has stopped for the next few days and ushered in cool nights and mild days which is a great benefit to the course helping recovery on our problem greens and with the vandalism from Saturday night. The Fredco Group is soding the 8th green today repairing the damage from the vandalism. The 8th green will closed entirely on Tuesday with a temporary green in play for Wednesday thru Friday. We will re-evaluate the green for the weekend. Fredco will also be finishing the new nursery today so we should have some germination in the next two weeks. I have been continuing to aerate and seed the problem areas on the greens and collars trying to establish as much bentgrass as possible with the favorable weather. As we look for better practices to preserve our small collars we began using plastic lattice when we mow the greens. The lattice gives us an area to turn the mowers on without injuring the collars. The greens were topdressed yesterday to help fill in voids as well as routinely dilute our thatch layer in the greens.

Lattice being used to protect the collars