Thank you for your giving us time to accomplish some much needed work this week. As planned, we will re-open Friday for play. Our effort this week has centered around the greens, but we also made treatments for weed prevention to the majority of the course. Neither of those chores can be done with play and both take a lot more than one day to complete.
Greens were aerated with two different methods. One, the mini core aeration, focuses on improving the top 1" of the profile where organic matter is too plentiful. Another, the deep tine aeration, focuses on relieving compaction well below the top 4" of the profile. If you read the last update you also know that we planned to have a contractor perform a third method called sand injection. After completing the first green, his tractor broke and we had to punt. We liked what we saw on the first green and are disappointed that we couldn't keep going. This is something we may try to do later in the fall once we revisit the calendar and the contractor's schedule. I want to see it function well on another course, before we give it another try. The recovery time for what we've just done is very minimal. We will perform the mini core aeration again in May and June, but will only need a day and a half to do it.
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| Mike on SR70 (Deep Tine Machine) |
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| Connor on the aerator with mini coring tines |
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| Mini cores blown into a pile on 11 |
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