The 8th green is fully open now with no ground under repair on the green now that the sod has rooted and we have brought the height of cut down to be equal with the rest of our greens. I will be keeping the pin locations out of the sodded areas for another few weeks until the ball rolls a little better in this area. I have fertilized the greens, tees and fairways this week with a blended fertilizer that is part synthetic and part organic. The product does carry an odor but now that it has all been watered in no odor is present. These fall applications are very important for the turf as we are trying to drive root growth before winter, increase carbohydrate reserves that were depleted during the summer, and aid in the recovery of aerification which will take place the week of September 26th. This aerification will also give us another great opportunity to seed all of the greens that still have bare spots. The annual flowers have been removed from the clubhouse landscape beds and replaced with mums for the fall.
The recent cooler weather signals that fall is around the bend and that means frost. Frost can develop anywhere under 40 degrees at MGC so even if your car or the bank thermometer says its above 32 there still might be frost. Please obey the frost delay signs that will be posted and do not walk on any turf until the ok is given by myself or the pro shop staff. The leaves will also begin to fall in the next few weeks and we will do our best to keep the golf course as clean as possible. The noise ordinance prevents us from using blowers on weekend mornings so by Sunday afternoon the course might be a little messy but we will continue to work as fast as possible cleaning up the leaves.
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