Weekly Photos (10/4/18)

#7 blue tee - tree removal necessary to open up vantage point from tee box

#1 fairway, 200 yds out - tree removal to open up shot at green

#13 left side rough - dead tree

#11 right side rough - dead tree

Before: #18 behind green - KR bluestem

After - #18 behind green, trimmed down

#18 green - from behind green

#10 red tee

10/4/18: #12 fairway - primo applied (6 oz/A) on 10/1/18

10/4/18: #9 beginning of fairway - grubworm damage

10/4/18 - #12 right side rough - grub/skunk damage in foreground

#1 right side rough fescue area - fescue seeding scheduled for 10/8/18

#1 left side rough - fescue planned here - needs loam backfill and small rock removal

#3 left side rough fescue area (10/4/18)

#9 left side rough fescue area - currently occupied by buttercups or similar broadleaf weed

#12 right side rough under oak tree at tee box - needs tilling/decompaction - fescue seed

#15 left side rough where we extended irrigation in late June:  Fescue for fall/winter, warm season grass next year

10/4/18 - driving range tee

This rock fell from the sky and landed right on this water moccasin.  Then it fell on it twice more.  It was an incredible sight.

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