Another Round of Rain

We continue to keep getting blessed with some very timely and beneficial rains here in the Kansas City area. Just as we were starting to dry out a bit and the grass was starting to show some drought stress over the weekend, we received another 1" of rain overnight. Along with the rain we also had some extremely high winds that caused some tree damage and knocked a lot of loose limbs and debris down. As you can imagine the course conditions today a pretty wet thus the carts are on the paths. We are busy working on repairing bunker washouts and raking them, picking up all the limbs and debris from the winds, and doing some selective mowing on some of our high drier green bank areas. Yesterday we were able to start the aerification process on some of our tees. It went well and we were able to get roughly six holes completed. Our plan is to try and get the aerifier back out later this afternoon and continue to work on some more tees on the back nine if conditions are dry enough. The good thing is a lot of our tees are mostly sand so they tend to dry out a little faster then the roughs and fairways that sit on heavier soils. I will try and get a photo later today if we continue the aerification of the tees to show you how we are doing it. I hope to see the sweeper show up here on sight this week so that we can start the fairway aerification process as soon as possible. I hope all of you had a great Fourth of July holiday with your friends and families and I will hopefully update the blog again later today with some photos.