What's with all this rain?
08/17/17- and more importantly how does it effect the course? Well we have received 8 inches of rain over the past 10 days. Obviously we are extremely wet and this is impacting our ability to mow the course, firm up the greens and also get them fast. We are actually hoping it does not rain anymore this week, we have not run our own irrigation in just about 3 weeks. Being too wet with the heat and humidity can lead to disease issues and just general decline of turf. We are hoping to finish all of our preventative spraying tomorrow and get the rest of the course mowed by the end of saturday. We are seeing some thinning again on 2 grizzly so we will be opening up some slits in the green on saturday to try to dry it up and get some oxygen into the soil. We will also do 5 kodiak at the same time. Once the temps drop we will be fertilizing those greens with granular fertilizer, topdressing and seeding. That should head off any issues and they should fill back in. The thinning is being caused by them being wet and having a lot of foot traffic. We will also continue to move the pins daily. Thank you for your patience while we take steps to fix these greens. We are expecting cooler drier weather after Wednesday of next week