Thursday, May 28, 2015

Punching holes

Today we started to needle tine the greens. The process is step one to needle tine the greens using 1/4" tine on 2.5" spacing. Step two mow the green. And the final step of rolling the green. After completion there will be very minimal effect on playability of the green. 
Today the front nine and tomorrow the back nine. 


If you any questions please feel free to contact me. 

Ross


Sunday, May 24, 2015

Aerate n seed

This morning decided to aerate and seed some of the bad spots in our collars. They were all seeded previously but figured it was time give them a little extra push to establish. The past few days we also fertilized all new seeded areas, this should get the seed to grow. At this time we need some warm weather. I have talked to various Golf Course Superintendents and all have commented how the last few weeks the new seed has done nothing. I would expect with warm weather the seed will grow. 


Here is Mikayla aerating collars this morning. 
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. 
We will see you on the course!!
Ross

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Top Dressing Greens

Today we are lightly top dressing the greens. Once the sand is dry we will roll into the turf canopy. 
These light top dressing will smooth the putting surface and also provide thatch management to keep the surface more firm. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. 


We will see you on the course 
Ross

Progress


We finally starting to make some progress on growing new grass. The top picture  was taken April 16, and the lower picture was on May 20. They are taken on 14 fairway. Progress has been slow due to the cooler temperatures, the ground temperature has actually maintained or slightly gone backwards over the last two weeks. 

We will see you on the course!!
Ross

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Germination

We are starting to see some germination of the grass that we seeded in the fairways. It is the rye grass, the blue grass should germinate in another 7-10 days. 


Thank you for your patience during this reseeding process. It is my goal to get Moccasin Creek back to great playing conditions as soon as possible. Each and every cart track slows this growth and fill in process down, so please drive in the fairways as minimal as possible. Thank you!

The new tees were reseeded on Friday. Hoping to see some growth soon. We will keep you updated on the seeded tees and the opening of any more sodded tees. Again Thank You for your patience!

Warm weather would help. 
We will see you on the course. 
Ross

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Rain / Frost

It always amazes me how we go from drought to too wet in a matter of days. Received 2.35" of rain over the last few days. It just goes to show that Mother Nature is in control, we just learn how to deal with whatever conditions she delivers us. 

The new tees were seeded on Friday. The question now is did all the rain wash any of the seed away. As the picture below shows there was some puddling on the tees, but it looks like the seed stayed in place. The lines in the picture is the hydro mulch that bunched up.  Only time will tell when the seedlings start to germinate. 


Now this morning we have frost!!  Will this hurt any of the new grass that has germinated?? Not sure at this time, I am hoping it didn't get cold enough to damage anything. 

It looks to be a nice day, we will see you on the course! 

Ross



Saturday, May 9, 2015

New Tees seeded

As many of you know the open winter was not very kind to the golf course. The new seeded tees are no exception. After waiting for some warm soil temperatures we determined that the seed was not going to germinate.  This was caused by the open dry winter. 

On Friday we went through the process of reseeding the new tee complexes. It was a three step process of tearing up the existing surface, seeding and finally dimpling or packing the seed into the sand base. We also added more organic fertilizer at this time, thinking this will give the seed more jump when it germinates. Speaking of seed we went with a combination of new creeping rye grass and low mow blue grass. This should give us a good tee surface when established. 


Here is Ottis riding with while dimple packing the seed.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. 

Ross

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Seeding of Fairways

Tuesday we finished seeding the fairways. We are ready to grow some grass. To accomplishing this we may be running the irrigation during the day to keep the seed bed moist, this will give the seed the best chance to establish. We are also asking that you follow all cart signs, if there are no signs please use the 90 degree rule on those fairways. Sorry for any inconvenience but we are just trying our best to get your golf course in the best shape possible. 


Above is a picture of the new sodded tee on #8. All the sodded tees are looking good. On the other hand, the new seeded tees are struggling. I think most of the seed did not make the dry winter. We will begin reseeding the tees as weather allows. The process will not take long but we will need some calm conditions to accomplish this. If you have any questions about the new tees or any others maintenance items please feel free to contact me. 

Chance of rain the next few days, I sure hope some moisture comes our way!!!

We will see you on the course. 

Ross