Course Update

This week was spent mowing turf for the most part. The rough is growing at a good pace now with the warmer night time temperatures and rainfall. The next three weeks we will be demoing rough mowers from three manufactures Toro, Jacobsen, and John Deere. MGC is looking to purchase one of these mowers in the spring of 2013 but we want to see how they handle the rough during the period when the rough is growing the fastest which is now. All of these mowers are larger then what we currently own so our ability to mow the rough more times per week should go up. The greens aeration is healing up much quicker then our April aeration. We continue to spoon feed the greens with small amounts of fertilizer on a weekly basis. I hope to begin grooming the greens back to a smoother surface this coming week although wet conditions can limit our ability to groom. The picture below is from the 5th green on Saturday morning and shows some healthy roots coming from the deep tine holes as well as the the sand channels in the putting surface picture.