Weekly Photos (9/27/18)

9/24/18: #4 green - double verticut @ .100" and blow thatch (left side); then mowed at .120" with buckets (right side)

9/27/18

9/21/18: #16 green and approach:  connected fairway with collar by mowing out neck on the left side of green:  scalped with fairway mower 

9/27/18: #16 white tee

9/27/18: willow baccharis lining creek on the greenside of #4.  To be removed this winter and creek bank cleaned up

#4 willow baccharis from greenside

#4 bed behind tee box - possible groundcover plant area (purple wintercreeper, monkeygrass, etc)

#7 weeping lovegrass area near white tee (9/27/18): vaseygrass and johnsongrass 

9/27/18: #1 green

9/27/18: putting green

9/27/18: clipping from last weeks rough mowing before mowed for 2nd time and blown

9/27/18: #9 fairway front - worst area with grub damage and armadillo diggings - cause for concern, need to push with 21-0-0 hard and see what we can get to fill in

Area behind #12 green - future fescue area

Out of play area behind #10 green, near #17 tee, on the way to #11 white tee: possible groundcover bed area

Weekly Photos (9/20/18)

9/17/18: #1 green after double verticut at .100"

9/17/18: #17 after double verticut and (left side) mow thatch with buckets

9/17/18: #16 green after double verticut and (right side) mow with buckets

9/17/18: #15 green after double verticut and one pass mowed with buckets

9/18/18: #11 fairway mow - 419 vs common patches

9/18/18: #13 fairway mow

9/18/18: #16 fairway mow

9/18/18: #11 rough mow 4300 (3 weeks no mower)

9/18/18: back two decks had loose blades, bogged down and didn't cut

9/17/18: rear roller from front right deck of 4300 broke off - floated deck in position with bailing wire.

9/18/18: rough clippings #16 rough

9/20/18 - #15 rough in between tee box and fairway

9/20/18 - #13: mowed rough (left), uncut rough (middle), fairway (right)

BEFORE: 4/12/18 - #4 weeping lovegrass area (from teebox)

AFTER: 9/17/18 - #4 weeping lovegrass area (from teebox)

#1 weeping lovegrass area - 9/20/18 - Not much lovegrass in this area, but mostly grassy native with minimal broadleaf plants

#18 pond - filamentous algae - treated with copper sulfate 9/19/18

Weekly Photos (9/13/18)

9-13-18: #2 hydraulic leak from last week

BEFORE: 9/10/18 - #3 hydraulic leak

9/13/18: #3 green hydraulic leak

9/13/18 - #2 fairway

9/13/18: #7 white tee

#15 palisades zoysia encroaching into fairway

9/13/18: #18 green from proshop

9/13/18 - #4 weeping lovegrass area

9/13/18 - #8 weeping lovegrass area

Vaseygrass (I think) in #8 weeping lovegrass riparian area

KR bluestem left side rough #9 (mowers still down)

#9 - rough height (left) vs. fairway height (right)

9/13/18 - #10 green surround scalping from mowing at 2" with trim mower

9/13/18: #17 tee complex scalped, mowed at 1.5" on 9/12/18

9/13/18: #14 fescue area - fescue didn't make it through the summer in some spots

9/13/18: fescue area in between #13 and 14 - thinned out from summer heat

9/13/18: DR tee

Weekly Photos (9/6/18)

9-5-18 - Shop yard nursery aerified, sod strip cutouts backfilled with plugs

Shop yard nursery aerification plug cleanup

9/6/18 - plugs in shop yard nursery strips

Aerification Recovery: 8/30/18 (3 days after aerification)

Aerification Recovery: 9/5/18 - 9 days after aerification

Aerification Recovery: 9/6/18 - 10 days after aerification

#16: 8/30/18 - 3 days after aerification

#16: 9/5/18 - 9 days after aerification

#14 fairway - blowing clippings

9/6/18: Hydraulic leak on greens mower 9/5/18 (1/2 hole #2)

9/6/18: Hydraulic leak on greens mower 9/5/18 (all of #3)

9/6/18: Hydraulic leak on greens mower 9/5/18 (1/2 #4)

look at this weird-looking mouse!  It's huge.