Pre-emergent Application

As spring is approaching, we decided that this week would be a good week to start our spring pre-emergent application.  Our area of emphasis for this week were clubhouse grounds, collars and some of our creek banks.  One area on the course that we wanted to clean up this year were our creek banks around our maintained turf.  Areas like #3 approach, #13 approach, #14 approach, etc, are areas that last year might have gotten a little out of hand when it comes to weeds.  We are hoping that with a spraying program that these areas are a little bit more "maintained" this year.  These areas are not something that we plan on weed eating every week, but hopefully with these areas weed free, you will find it more enjoyable when you play your round.  We also sprayed our collars this week.  We finished those on Wednesday before the 40mph winds and cold front hit.  We sprayed 2 laps around each green which will help with any poa annua that has popped up in the last month.  You should see some activity from these applications over the next couple of weeks.  In all of our spray tanks we have a pre-emergent herbicide, roundup, and a 2,4-d of some kind to take care of any weeds that are in these areas. Next week we plan on spraying Tees, fairways and surrounds.   Below are some pictures of the week to hopefully give you some insight on how we made these applications.