Taste of Spring

It has been an extremely busy week here at Wolf Creek this week. As I mentioned in the previous post we completed our aerification of our greens and approaches. The process went extremely well and we accomplished all that we hoped too. We also try to minimize our disruption to the play however some of our practices are just hard to minimize the disruption. One of those is our rough aerification. I decided to try and get it completed this week as well since the greens were aerified and our play traditionally is lighter I figured I would try and get all these practices knocked out the same week so that the recovery and messiness only happens once. It looks like we should get the rough completed by the end of today which is going to be huge. The forecast shows that we have a chance for some rain on Sunday so this will be the perfect time for the rain to wash in the sand on the greens and help break down the plugs in the roughs. The maintenance team has also been busy applying amendments and our first preventative application of fungicide to the greens and starting to apply our pre-emergents to our zoysia grass bunker faces and tees. We have also been busy rolling the greens and doing some more blowing to try and encourage the sand to continue to work its way into the canopy of the turf. I am happy with how this is progressing and am feeling pretty good about the expected recovery if the weather continues to help us out. I have attached some pictures of the rough aerator and what it looks like after the plugs are pulled. We use a tumble style of aerator in our roughs and fairways because of all the rock that is underneath our property it just does a better job and we don't tear up as much equipment and turf as we do with the regular style. I hope everyone has a great weekend enjoying the weather and watching the best golf tournament in my opinion in the world The Masters.