The great fall weather stuck around for most of this week and mother nature even gave us an inch of rain on Tuesday, much needed as we are still 10 inches below normal. We were able to complete the lighting project on the front entrance columns, along the driveway, and at the front door of the clubhouse this week. As I pulled in this morning, the entrance to the club just looked great, much more inviting, safer, and the beautiful blue stone columns at the entrance finally look the way they were intended. As the season nears an end and our crew prepares to leave for the winter the water fountain from 7 tee was brought in for the season along with all the ball washers. Next week we will be removing the bunker rakes and the porch furniture for winter storage.
New this late fall season we will be aerating the greens this coming Monday utilizing a contractor to deep aerate to a depth of 9 inches followed by our machine using 1/4 inch solid tines. The greens will be then topdressed with sand preparing them for winter. This late aeration of the greens will allow us to not aggressively aerate the greens in the spring of 2017. The cold springs the past two season have created a challenge to heal the greens following the April aeration so we instead will aerfiy now thus having much better playing surfaces for the entire spring season.
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