Breast Cancer Awareness Month

In honor of Breast Cancer awareness month we will be having pink flags for the remainder of October. 

Update on bottom left rough on number eight

As you well know if you have played golf since August the bottom left side of number eight rough has a forty foot long and ten foot wide wet spot that will not dry up. This is the first time this has ever occurred in this location. We are contributing it to all the rainfall we received this past summer. The left side of the cart path at the three cypress trees is holding large amounts of water as well. We believe a natural spring has been filled back up and is coming down from the woods left of number eight path and flowing into the rough. There is minimal drainage in this location and it has been sufficient enough until all of the rain. The spring is overwhelming the drainage and is not allowing the right side of the cart path to drain into the drainage left of the path. To help dry this area up a little faster a french drain was added last week and it seems to have dried up close to half of the wet area.

Traction matting added to number six bridge

Matting was added to the little walking bridge on number twelve last year for traction. It has held up good in the weather and seems to work well for golfers walking over it while it is wet. After observing this we added more matting to the first bridge on number six this week and we will be adding it to the newest bridge on number six in the next few weeks. Mill Suggs and John Dinuoscio are both veterans of their respected branches of military and have been working at the club part-time for thirteen and five years respectively. John and Mill are both jacks of all trades and also operate any equipment we have on the golf course. You usually can catch them mowing fairways or roughs throughout the growing season and working on projects such as six bridge as well. Without employees, but more importantly friends like John and Mill the golf course would not operate or be the same without all their hard work and dedication. So if you see them on the course don't be afraid to wave them down and say hello.

Overseeding

The rain never showed up this past Monday like the weather channel was calling for. We were scheduled to overseed the driving range tees, putting green surrounds, practice area and four par three tees on the course, so it worked out to our advantage that it did not rain and we were able to drop some seed. Overseeding is a very tedious operation, due to all the steps it takes to complete the process. First we must scalp down all the turf. This allows the ryegrass to have less competition with the bermudagrass during germination. After the turf has dried we then can apply the ryegrass. We use a three foot drop spreader to outline the perimeter, tees, trees or any other areas that will not be overseeded. We then use rotary spreaders and apply the seed in two different directions for optimum coverage. During the process you are bound to get some seed in places that are not meant to have it, such as outside the perimeter of the overseeded area. We then come back and spray with our walking sprayer one pass along the perimeter of the overseeded area with a preemergence. By doing this it prevents the seed from germinating, thus allowing for a nice clean perimeter.