Mulched Areas

Over the last few weeks, our maintenance crew has been trying something new around the course. We have always had these areas on the course that are somewhat out of play but also will get the occasional golf ball landing in them.  These areas are hard to grow grass in because of either no sunlight or no sprinkler heads in the area for the irrigation that it would need.  We decided to make these areas into mulched beds.  We put up some edging around the area that we wanted to mulch that will hopefully keep the mulch in place throughout the year and also keep people from driving through these ares.  The mulch looks nice and you can also still play your golf ball off of it if you happen to hit it in there.  We have already had a few comments on what we have done so far and everything has been positive.  Here are a couple of pictures of the before and after.

Please help us take care of these areas by keeping carts away from these beds.  We have also started some sodding projects around the course.  These areas have stakes and ropes around them so please helps us keep this sod alive by staying out of the roped areas as well.

Collar Aerification

   We are back!  I haven't been doing a very good job keeping up with blog post over the past year.  Seems like once we get into our busy season it was forgotten about.  I have had several people ask about what happened to our blog and I am proud to say that we are going to start being more consistent with our blogging again.    

   Spring is well under way and our bermudagrass is finally starting to show signs of life.  Over the last two weeks the golf course has really started to green up.  As always, our shorter cut grass (collars, tees and fairways) are always to first to get going.  To help with our green up, we decided to start our aerification process this week.  We started today on our collars and will begin our tees and fairways tomorrow.  Our plan was to start everything on Monday but the rain on Sunday forced us to wait till today. This process helps us relieve any compaction and help get some needed air down through the canopy and down to the roots.  Hopefully with it being in the mid-80's on Thursday and some more chances of rain this coming weekend, we can encourage our bermudagrass to start greening up and growing.  

   We will be finished with everything by Friday afternoon and have everything cleaned up by the weekend.  I will post some pictures of our Tee and Fairway process as soon as we get started.