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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Aerification Is Complete!

Aerification is all complete, and greens are well on their way to being healed up. The last couple days of rain have really helped beat the sand down into the holes. We have now rolled greens three times since Monday, and plan on mowing tomorrow. I played nine holes on Tuesday and was pleasantly surprised at how smooth they actually were. There were still a few bumps here and there but not to bad for being one day out from completion.
This year we tried a different approach by topdressing before we aerified.  We did this to eliminate the ruts we get in the green from the heavy topdresser.  Our approach worked great, and I think we'll be able to smooth them out much quicker.
Josh running the aerifier on 1 green.
Green with topdressing on the left waiting to be aerified and the aerified portion on the right.
The final product.


Wednesday, April 2, 2014

10 Tee Cleanup and Ornamental Transplanting

Here are some more of the ornamental grasses that we divided and moved to the back of 15 tee and 13 tee.


We also divided some other ornamental grasses and ringed the backside of 15 tee.

We did the same on the back of 13 tee along with clearing out more brush.