Irma stayed away long enough for us to complete most of our work. Monday and Tuesday were great for aerating and topdressing. Wednesday was supposed to be a big clean up day where we did more brushing, sweeping, and blowing. However, rain and clouds held us back until 2:30 when the sun finally popped out. The sand won't move if it's wet so we lost about 5 hours of greens clean up time waiting on the sun. Thanks to Tim, Ryan, and Richard for hanging around until dark to help us get the front nine brushed and blown. Today, if the clouds disappear, we will wrap up the back nine clean up and get everything rolled. We are open for play today, but the greens are not where we'd hoped they'd be. With a little luck we should be able to put the finishing touches on them today and get the recovery process in full swing. Here are pictures of the process that has been underway since Monday at 6:00 AM. The guys have worked extremely hard to get this done and I am very proud of the results. You have a great team!
PS...We will aerate the practice green next Monday. Yesterday's rain got in the way and we decided to focus on trying to get the course back together with the time we had.
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Step 1...Light Verticut
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| Step 2...Aerate |
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Step 3...Shovel up plugs
We picked up almost 20 tons of material by hand |
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View following steps 1,2,3. We used 1/2" diameter coring tines as well as 1/2" diameter solid tines. We have been tinkering with different methods and decided that this combination was worth a try. We'll see how it plays out in the coming months
Steps 4 and 5 are topdressing and brushing |
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| Step 6...Blowing off excess sand after topdressing and brushing |
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What they look like after the first 6 steps
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