October Update

Please don't be scared the large orange thing in the sky is the sun which most of us have forgotten about since the middle of September. The next 5 or 6 days look like great weather, almost summer like by the weekend, which will help the course to dry out and really get the turf growing which will help fill in the aeration holes. The greens, tees, collars, and approaches are finished being aerated as well as Fairways 1,2,3,4 and 9. The fairways take a long time due to the fact that we are using our greens aerator to aerate the fairways. This is not the ideal situation but MGC does not own a fairway aerator and the budget didn't allow for contract work this year on the fairways. The long stretch of wet weather has produced more worm casts (mud) on the fairways then I have ever seen at MGC. These worm casts while a real problem for the golfer also cause problems for the grounds staff namely dull mowers. The dry weather should help the worm cast situation although it will remain noticable for the next few weeks as the turf grows through the casts. We are also mowing down the tall grass between #8 and #9. This is a yearly process that allows us to keep these areas under control and give us the ability to spray an herbicide that will remove all the weeds from these areas.

Mowing Tall Grass on #9