Damp Week

It looks like this week is going to be rather damp here at Wolf Creek.  The forecast for the week is rain and more rain.  We received about .5" overnight and it looks like it is suppose to move in again later this afternoon into the evening.  I am keeping my fingers crossed hoping it will be a gentle steady rain and not a heavy downpour.  Monday we did our first verticut/topdress on our greens helping to keep the greens smooth and consistent.  This practice really helps remove the missed leaf tissue that is laid over and the mower can't get and really helps the consistency of the putting surfaces.  Also we have continued our sodding of the drainage trench lines in the fairways.  We are almost finished with the trenches and we will then start patching in some of the thinner areas under trees and close to our approach areas where there is heavy traffic or shade issues.  The mowers continue to run as much as possible trying to keep up with the growth in our roughs.  This is the perfect storm for the cool season roughs as they love damp and 70 degree weather like we are having.  They will eventually start to slow down growing once the wet season is over and temperatures start to increase.  Many of you have probably noticed the annual purple tint to our fairways as the Zoysia grass is starting to do it's annual seed head production.  This goes on for about two weeks and then they will stop this is a normal occurrence but it just causes the fairways to have a dingy purple color.  The new putting green continues to fill in nicely.  We have been able to mow it and topdress it a few times now helping it to start to fill in.  It has a long ways to go yet but I am very encouraged about how it is going so far.  I hope everyone has a great week!  Stay dry and hope to see all of you here at the course at some point!

Greens after verticut and a mow.  Most of the lines from the verticut disappeared!

New Putting Green!!