Foundry
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Topdressing and Lime
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Fairway Aeration and Bermudagrass around Greens
Aeration of greens surounds and collar using 5/8 inch hollowtines |
Fransico and Martin aerating fairways, roughs and tee complexes |
Fransico Draging and breaking up plugs. The plugs are wet from the morning rain
so it is taking loger.
Blowing Plugs off the fairway into the rough. The rough mower will chop the plugs up |
Greens Aeration Pictures
william applying a layer of topdress sand. We choose to topdress before aaerating the greens. If we topdress after the aerator punches holes the green is much softer and tire marks cause more damage |
Manuel Aerating 13 green 1/4 inch hollow tines 2.5 inch spacing |
Clean up crew |
Rolling greens to smooth out holes
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Goose Grass Sampling with Bayer Technical Staff
Rick Fritz territory representative and Dr. Frank Wong From Bayer are here to collect samples of break through of Goose grass plants. These samples will be sent to the research and development center in North Carolina. Once the plants are at the lab,testing will be done to see if there is a resistant to the pre emerge Herbicide. At this time there is NO known resistant to the herbicide Ronstar. Bayer has done a good job with the customer support and trying to figure out this problem.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Sod installation winter damage
Sod was laid behind 3,4,7,9,16, 17 greens along with some areas at the tee complexes. Damage was from
winter cold, shade and traffic. The heat has really came on strong over the last couple of weeks. It is good for the Bermuda grass. We see a lot of good Bermuda grass growth under the rye. I would expect to be complete with transition from rye to Bermuda grass by months end. The biggest areas of concern will be 8 approach, 9 tee, 10 white tee 10 front right fairway and 11 tee. These were all the areas that were sodded last year. The strongest areas on the course are where the Bermuda grass has been down for three years. The areas we have to keep sodding have problems every spring because the root structure is not mature going into the winter Therefore it does not survive the winter. If we allow some of the thin areas to mature we will have stronger Bermuda grass
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Fan installation
The fans are used to circulate the air at pocketed green sites. If there is not enough air movement the bentgrass will stay wet and entice disease pressure.
installing and wiring the support post. The fan will then be ready for operation
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