Weekend Update

The humidity has broke and the temperatures are running fairly normal for this time of year and most importantly the night time temperatures are below 70 degrees. We have missed most of the late afternoon thunderstorms which is great news for the short turf playing surfaces as high moisture combined with high temperatures is a death sentence. The trade off of missing these storms are the areas of the rough where we lack irrigation are drying up and browning out. We have less of these areas this season thanks to the project on 1 and 9 green complexes those bunkers and surrounding rough areas look great. We are applying some granular wetting agent to the dry rough areas in anticipation of some rain early next week which will help speed recovery. Rough areas and bunker banks were also treated for crabgrass and yellow nutsedge that has broken through this week. Saturday is the men's one day member guest so in preparation the greens are being dry mowed in the late morning for a second time on Thursday and Friday as well, the greens and approaches were brushed before our morning mow on Friday. Brushing is a much less aggressive then verticutting and grooming allowing us to remove some longer blades of turf keeping the greens running true without stressing the greens. Weekend weather looks great and I hope to see you on the course.