Heat Wave Continues

Temperatures have continued to stay hot and humid. Heat indexes have been over the 110 degree mark a few times over the past week or so.  The maintenance team has been busy trying to keep things cool along with our normal maintenance practices trying to keep everything as cool as possible and trying not to damage the grass with the equipment in the heat of the day.  All in all everything seems to be holding up pretty well.  The greens are showing a little stress in spots, but this is pretty normal under these conditions and hopefully the weather is going to cool off tomorrow like the forecasters are saying.  One thing I would like to ask everyone's help with is being diligent with the cart traffic in our roughs.  Majority of you do a great job of keeping the carts out of the roughs all the time, however it is very important this time of year to be as diligent as possible as the turf is in a fragile state and it doesn't take much to stress it out and cause damage with cart traffic.  Thank you all for your help and your willingness to help us out.   I apologize for not updating my last post with pictures from the tee line installation that is occurring on the driving range.   I have attached a couple pictures below of the concrete installation and then the beginning of the turf installation.  The contractors are on schedule to hopefully finish sometime later this week if the last roll of the turf arrives.  If it doesn't they may have to finish the beginning of next week and then once the turf has been glued down for 24 hours it is ready to use.  We are still trying to get the tees aerified.  Hot temperatures have caused us some delays as our staff has been busy doing other things.  My hope is that either later this week or next week we will be aerifying the tees which should only take us a week or so to complete.  I don't know how many of you have played lately and noticed the new Crabapple trees that we installed on holes # 3,10, & 18.  We put these trees in areas where we think they provide some nice color variations and provide a little backdrop to the green complexes. Well that about does it for today.  I hope everyone is able to stay inside and stay as cool as possible for the rest of today.  We are hoping the cool down tomorrow happens and that some of this heat and humidity gets out of here.  Stay cool and we hope to see you on the course soon!