Verticutt & aerification

Monday we began our second full course greens aerification. 

We verticut, mow, topdress, aerify, drag, blow, brush, fertilize and water. Each green. 

The front none will be open Ruesday , the back nine open Wednesday. 

Here are some pictures of different stages of the process

A pic of the putting as it is being topdressed

 Our new dumpd trailor to haul our topdressing material

Putting green after being aerified

Putting green after being dragged, blown and brushed  

Maumelle Classic

Well another Classic is in the books.

I was very proud of our Club this past week! I believe that every part of the Club team performed wonderfully. 

I also am very proud of my staff and how the prepared the course. I feel that the golf course was in as good condition as ever, and although the greens might not have been the prettiest, they played great. 

I hope evryone gad a food weekend! 

View frim behind 17 looking back to tee. 

By Sunday morning the greens measured 11' 9" on the stimpmeter. 

Irrigation blowout

Friday afternoon we had a blowout on #4 . It was the main line of our system and at a three way junction. The 6 inch line splits at the tee and is reduced to 3 inches one direction and 4 inches in the other. The break occurred at the tee itself. Here is a picture of the pipe after we exposed it and prepared it for repair.

Here is the truck load of parts needed to repair the line.

We got to work on it first thing Saturday morning. Here is proof that the Superintendent is not afraid to get dirty.

Alfredo tightening the bolts on the junction.

Finished, now time to bury it and pressurize.

When we pressurized our repair held true, BUT another joint 8 feet down line blew out! Here is Jose and Alfredo finishing the second repair.

We were able to get the system back up and running by Sat. Evening! Thanks to my staff that made that happen.

Rain Storm

The Rain Storm last night came down ling and hard. Our bunkers have not been washed out this bad all summer. 

Anytime the bunkers wash it is extremely important that we clean all of the silt and mud off out of the sand before we rake. Otherwise the silt/mud will mix with the sand and prevent water from flowinging freely through the sand to the drains. 

Aerifying a few greens.

Today we core aerified our weakest greens, Putting Green, 5, 16, and 18. This will give them the last push to catch up with the others. And will allow us to groom them for the high quality putting surface we all want. 

Mole

Here are some pictures of the mole that terrorized 11 green a little over a week ago. 

After setting traps, baiting with poison and stalking the little bugger Jose finally caught him! 

And a picture of the beast. He was caught and realeased behind 14 unharmed.

Big Day

Today was a busy day on the course, as will tomorrow. 

We began our aerification process today and will continue tomorrow. 

We completed the practice area, 1-10 today and will finish up Tuesday. 

Clint started things off at 4:00am this morning by verticutting the first few greens, Jose took over when he arrived at 6:00.

Then Kyle and Nash mowed all of the greens.

Clint now applies the organic amendment.  

Next comes the topdressing, Alfredo and Luis took care of that. 

Then Lorenzo, Vern, and Ken ran the aerifiers. 

Then i dragged the greens. Clint helped out with this too. 

After dragging comes the cleaning. All available hands help. 

Once clean Jose brushes them. 

Last but not least Alffredo and Clint fertilize the greens. 

It takes EVERYONE on my staff to complete aerification! Our technician Mike Fletcher is the backbone to our operation, even though I did not get a picture of him today.