Weekly Photos (6/3/18)

Shop Yard Nursery
Sod is tacked down and first cut will be this week.  We added a trench for drainage on the low end of the yard, and we will add pipe and gravel on 6/4 or 6/5.  Afterwards, we are going to come back in and add a decomposed granite edge for the dumpsters and brush boxes to be placed (seasonally).

6/3/18

5/24/18

Fairways

#15 (6/3/18)

#14 (6/3/18)

#9 6/1/18 - Kids broke into cart barn, stole 3 carts and did donuts on this fairway.

Hydraulic Leak on Memorial Day (#14 Green)
A hydraulic hose on the greens triplex burst on #14 green.  It affected one pass, but the damage is thin enough to fix without having to use sod from our nursery.  Tomorrow we will aerify this pass with 1/2" hollow tine with tight spacing, then topdress and come over the top with a hand spiker.

5/28/18:  Flushed the area with a hose immediately after discovery

5/29/18

5/29/18

5/29/18: sprayed with Renova at 6 oz/1000 rate (verticut and topdressed green)

6/1/18

Mutations
The greens have an unusual look this time of the year before we mow.  It has been like this since 2016, and was most prevalent on #8 green early on.  Usually after we get deep into our verticut/topdress program in the summer, it doesn't look as bad.  It has no affect on playability, and it is much less noticeable after we mow each morning.

#16 green (5/29/18)

#16 green (5/29/18: close up, dew)

#16 green (5/29/18, lower tier)

Topdress/Verticut (5/29/18)
Light topdress, double verticut down and back the same pass (12-6)

PG topdress (before verticut)

#9 green (after topdress, then verticut)

We normally verticut, (sometimes mow), then topdress and drag.  We tried it this way to see if it would push the sand into the verticut grooves and tighten up the canopy.  It worked pretty well, but the cleanup pass was a little heavier with sand, of which we blew off the excess into the rough.


Riparian Renovation Update
We are growing just about every unwanted plant in these areas, especially tobacco weed and johnsongrass.  The johnsongrass will be sprayed with a high rate of monument in the larger patches, and hand removed (weak root system) in spots.  The annual ryegrass is beginning to burn up, so the plan is to wait for it to completely die, then come in with a weedeater and trim everything down and seed the proso millet to fill voids for the summer.

#1, from green (6/3/18)

#4, from rough (6/3/18)

#7 & 8, from #7 fairway 6/3/18)

#8, from red tee 6/3/18 (johnsongrass-infested)

#15, from #12 low water crossing 6/3/18

#17 from right side white tee box 6/3/18

Weekly Photos: 5/21/18

#1 from green

#4 from greenside rough

#7 from cartpath near low water crossing

#8 from red tee box

#15 from #12 low water crossing

#17 from gold tee box

split tree #6 gold tee, night of 5/20/18

#6:  to be cut down on 5/29/18 (closed day)

shop yard nursery 5/24/18

Weekly Photos: Shop Yard Nursery (5/21/18)

 We are in the home stretch of the shop yard nursery, which now contains 9 pallets of Celebration bermuda and 9 pallets of Tif419 bermuda.  The nursery contains 6 hunter irrigation heads, a quick coupler, and a control box for programming.  It's been a long project that started back in 2016, but we hope to be able to use the nursery to fill weak spots throughout the course without having to continually purchase sod.

Stump Pile

The yard contained old broken equipment, unusable fuel tanks, other junk, and two large stump piles.  We began cleaning out the area last winter.  We've added excess soil/sand from renovation projects throughout the last year and smoothed it out with box blade.  The bermuda in the area was sprayed multiple times with roundup, and last week with roundup/fusilade.  The irrigation system was added to the area earlier this year.

Post Spray/Pre-till (5/16/18)

Tiller (5/17-5/18/18)

On Thursday and Friday, we tilled the area with a walk behind tiller to prep the soil and to loosen rocks, trash, wood, etc.

Sand pro with Tines (5/19/18)

We used a Sand Pro with attached tines to smooth out the existing soil and continue to unearth the loose rocks, wood, and trash.  Then we picked up all the large rocks and trash by hand and discarded them.

Chocolate Loam (5/20/18)

We added two loads of chocolate loam to mix in with the existing soil, with the purpose of smoothing out the area and adding a more optimal growing medium.

Sand Pro (5/20/18) 8:45 am

 The chocolate loam was then smoothed out and dragged in with the Sand Pro.  And then we received 2.5" of rain over a short span of time.

(5/20/18 - 8:50 a.m.)

(5/20/18 - 8:55 a.m.)

 We hand raked the area to fix the flooded areas (after setting up for an outside tournament), then began laying the truckload of sod we received earlier in the morning.

Top Half: Celebration, Bottom Half: 419

We plan on adding decomposed granite around the perimeter of the sod along the fence line later.  The leftover sod will be used on 5/22/18.  The upcoming challenge will be trying to smooth the sod out over time by topdressing, rolling, aerifying/rolling, etc.

Weekly Photos: 5/10/18

 Below are updated photos of the riparian renovation project, which displays the current status of the annual ryegrass germination.  We will have to manually remove broadleaf weeds in each of these areas, and the slope on #7 will need additional soil and seed to fix the erosion from the latest rain event (3.25" on 5/4/18).  Also included are a couple photos from our aerification and two photos of the new tee markers.  I'll try to take comparative photos from the exact same locations in the following weeks in order to properly view the progress.

#1: from green

#4: from tee

#4: from rough

#7: from cart path (one of the few areas that washed from the 3.25" rain)

#7 & 8: from fairway side #7

#8: from ladies tee

#15: from #12 low water crossing

#17: from white tee box

#17: from white tee box - close up

#4 green - 3 days after aerification

#4 green closeup - 3 days after aerification

#6 fairway

New tee markers, blue (#12 tee)

New tee markers, white (#12 tee)