Holiday Weekend

It has been an outstanding week of weather and activity here at Wolf Creek. The weather has been warm and full of sunshine and the maintenance team has been running at full throttle all week. We are still hoping for some much needed rain as we have yet to receive any significant amount this week. Last night it looked like we got a little shower enough to wet the pavement but not enough to really do any good. There are chances for the rest of the weekend so we will have to wait and see. The maintenance team has been busy working on replacing some more winter kill areas in our fairways on hole #8 and #4. We are hoping that the rest of the areas that are still somewhat dormant on these fairways will continue to green up like they are and eventually recover. Our plan is to continue to monitor these and give them some more time in the sun and warmer weather before we make our final decision to sod them. Another item we have been working on this week is spraying the rag weed crop in our native areas. I don't know if I have ever seen a crop this thick before! We will continue to spray these areas as needed. The rough and fairway turf have continued to shoot their seed heads out causing the fairways to look purplish and the roughs a bit of a yellowish white appearance. I am hoping that they are both getting to the end of this stage and then will start to settle in and harden off for the rest of the season. The seed heads make it difficult to get a good cut on these areas. The greens are continuing to perform unbelievably well so far this year. We have had a few areas around the greens get a little warm and crispy but the greens themselves have been holding their moisture very well. Since they have been holding the moisture so well we have been able to back off on the hand watering somewhat which has helped to keep them a bit firmer. Our goal is to continue to be diligent with our water management helping them to stay on the firm side as much as possible. One thing I would like to ask all of your help with is fixing unrepaired ball marks. I have been noticing an abundance of unrepaired ball marks on our greens. I think this is due to the greens being firmer and the balls bouncing more and rolling to the back of the greens. Players are then not seeing the marks towards the front of the greens where the ball actually hit. I would like to get everyone's help with this and together we can remedy this issue. I have included a little video showing the proper way to repair a ball mark. It looks like the weather is going to be great over the holiday weekend and on Monday. Hopefully the rain will come at night time so the golfing will be uninterrupted and we can also get our beneficial rain. Have a great and safe holiday weekend and I hope to see you at some point this weekend on the course!!