After a long week which included tournament golf and a true summer warm up, the putting greens needed a little TLC. Low humidity, warm temps and high winds really had the greens drying out. Today we mowed, sprayed a "wetting agent" and followed up with venting with needle tines on our aerifier. Finished with a whole lot of H2O to rehydrate the greens. The wetting agent helps with surface tension and water retention within the soil profile. The venting poked very small holes about 4" deep to help allow the water to infiltrate and move through the soil profile. It also provides an empty chamber for gas exchange and oxygen for the plant.
Video of our venting process.
If this wasn't enough we started eliminating the "old" cart path on #11. The path was excavated and soil was replaced to bring back to grade. Fescue sod was laid today and will be finished tomorrow. The last section will also be removed and zoysia sod will be laid to extend the current fairway to the new cart path.
As a token of appreciation, we fired up the BBQ pit for the boys. We have a great crew and they have been really working their tails off to get the results we have made our standard.
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