#9 looking pretty good!

We still have alittle catch up left to do from Isaac but all in all I think the Course looks real good right now!

Isaac

A quick update after the first day/night of the storm, all is fine.
We have the expected amount of small debris and one larger limb down on the back nine. Other than that the course is good. About 2.5 inches of rain really helped us. Only a few bunkers washed so it never really came down too hard for too long. We still have some storm bands that might hit us later, and today will be windy so more limbs will surly come down. But all in all we are good so far.!

2nd Aerification of 2012

We finished our 2nd aerification Tuesday. This particular time we used a slightly different procedure. Instead of core aerifying (pulling plugs) we simply vented (poked holes) the greens.
We decided to make this change since the current growing conditions are not great. I was afraid that we would not have perfect greens for the Club Championship just on the 17th. This form of aerifying is not as beneficial as pulling pulling cores but it is still effective in temporarily relieving compaction and promoting water and air movement through the soil.
We did verticut aggressively. This will really help with combat thatch build up and will greatly reduce the grain.

Here are a few pictures of the process.

before and after verticut (before is on the right)

Amount of grass removed while verticutting #1 green.

Aerifying

Topdressing

Greens Speeds at the Classic

The offical green speed measurements for the first two rounds are 12.5 using USGA Stimp meter.

Mearsurments were taken bothdays at 9:00am on 17 green. They were very consistent from day to day. Although, I would expect the greens to speed up a little more today due to the warmer, dryer air.
I anticipate the speeds being very close to the same tomorrow.

MAUMELLE CLASSIC COURSE PREPARATIONS

It takes a couple of weeks of preparations to have the Course ready for a tournament like the Maumelle Classic. However, the morning preparations  during the actual tournament is some of the most important action!
We utilize every member of our crew, most of them on the greens.
Here are pictures of most of the jobs that we accomplish in front of the golfers.

 Clint Sellers our New Assistant Superintendent Changes Cups early morning before play.

 We use 4 crew members to walk mow all greens prior to play. In the foreground is Edgar on 11 and in the distance is Oscar on 15.

 Jose is our fith greens mower. He mows every green again after the walk mowers to  smooth the surface another time and clip a little more leaf blade.

 Alfredo then Rolls the geens with the roller. This is the final step in preping the grens. They are now perfect!.

 We mow every fairway in front of play. Here is Oscar on 7.

 Cande mowing fairways on 6.

 Tanner and Tayler have finished walk mowing their greens , they then checked greens one last time and blew any leaves or pine straw that may have  fallen onto the greens.

Lorenzo rakes every bunker. He is on early moring!

Fertilizer!

Today we fertilzed the entire course (geen settings, fairways, and tee settings and roughs boardering fairways). We used 7450 lbs of fertilizer and covered 54 acres.

90 Degree Rule !

As of this morning we can once again follow the 90 degree cart rule. Please be aware of were you are driving and please do not drive over or through any roped off areas. Thank you.