September - Greens Superintendent Update
Green Superintendent Update The month of August gave the course a much-needed break weather-wise—the weather patterns focused on cooler days and mornings with dew. With this, our turf has been recovering nicely from a tough July. the rough is active again and growing. It is great to see the course green again! Aeration The aeration process was vigorous. All green were topdressed first followed by a deep tine shown in the first photo. The deep tine machine consists of 10” tine, similar to our aeration machine. This solid tine was set to a depth of 7” to fracture compacted soil and allow oxygen deep into our root system. This also creates a deep channel for drainage. The next step was a solid tine directly over at a 2” depth at a 2.0 spacing. This also breaks up the surface compaction and adds more sand to our canopy. The more sand we add to the green complexes the better health of turf we will have. As well as consistent firm playability comes al...