The unofficial end of summer has arrived and MGC was busy with the Men's Stag tournament on Friday, weekend play, and two shotgun events on Monday. Craig and his staff had a raffle to support the Folds of Honor, which supports soldiers families through scholarships and other assistance programs. The concept of the Folds of Honor raffle was fully supported by the Board allowing MGC to donate $1,180.00. Thank you to all who supported our troops and their families.
The fall season gives us an opportunity to feed and renovate the turf on the golf course allowing for good root growth and carbohydrate reserves to be built up going into dormancy. Today we were able to vent the collars, topdress the greens, and apply our soil flush of potassium and calcium to the greens. The heavy rain forecast for today and tomorrow will delay out fall application of organic granular fertilizer to the tees and fairways. This application is very important for the turf and I do not want the material to move if we have heavy down pours and puddling on the golf course. The plant protectants that are due to be applied today must dry on the turf so I will be postponing them until the weather changes.
September 24th and 25th will be greens aeration followed by approaches and tees. These aerations are the single most important agronomic process that we do on the golf course and the most hated by golfers. The greens, tees, and approaches will be dirty, sandy, and shaggy for 10-14 days while we complete these processes. The fairways will be solid tine aerified in-house as time allows later in October. No mess will occur on the fairways this fall. I will explain in more detail at the end of the month.
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