We had a great October for growing in the new grass on the tee project. Seed is growing in all the new areas, some of which is starting to fill in nicely. The sod has also started to root with the nice weather.
This is a picture of this morning on #3 tee. As you can see the rough area is looking good and starting to fill in. I think our growing season is done with the cold temperatures last night.
Here we are late October, and still have grass growing. Most all the seed you see growing is rye fescue grasses. There is some blue grass starting to germinate but only on a couple of holes. For that reason the tee surface areas look thin, over 75% of the seed on the tee is blue grass. In the rough area there is 50% blue grass and the rest is rye and fescues. If the blue grass does not germinate this fall it should come up in the spring.
The sod has really started to root in the past few days. Again we have one tee sodded on each hole. We will start using the sodded tees some time next spring.
We now have seed germinating on all 14 renovated tee areas. The nice fall weather has helped get this seed up and growing. This week we started to mow some of the sod on 4 of the first holes completed. What will happen from here on is unknown, but we are hoping this weather continues for a bit longer.
We now have seed up on 4 holes, with 3-4 more holes ready to pop this week. The nice fall weather has helped the seed germinate and establish. I hope this weather continues for the rest of the fall season. The better the weather is this fall and next spring the sooner the new tee areas will be open.
The weather looks great this week so come out and enjoy some beautiful fall golf.
We have started the process of venting the fairways. It will take us about 4-5 days to complete. The venting will relieve compaction thus allowing oxygen and water to penetrate through the soils profile. Once done we will then mow the fairways to smooth out any minor bumps, when complete there will be a very minimal effect on playability.
The course is in great shape come out and enjoy!!!
The finish date is near!! Most all the prep work should be complete today. Sod trucks are scheduled for Sunday and Monday. By mid week everything should be seeded and cleaned up.
Above is a picture of the shape of one of our new tees. We will have a squared shape with slightly rounded corners. This will be a nice new fresh look.
We are now going on our seventh week of the tee project. By the end of the day we should have eight holes complete.
Above is a picture of the sod ring installed around every tee. Along with that one tee on each hole that will be all sod. We have recently decided to sod extra tee areas on the par threes. This will give us more tee surface to be used sooner.
If you have any questions or would
like to tour the progress please feel free to contact me.
Please remember to stay off all construction areas!! We have had a few carts driving through recently seed areas.