Great Weather Continues

The great weather has continued over the past week or so.  Temperatures have been absolutely perfect along with low humidity which has really made being outside very comfortable.  Cool season grasses have really benefited with the break in the weather which has allowed them to relax and start to grown and develop a root system again and not just trying to survive like they were doing when temperatures and the humidity were higher.  On the course this week we started our annual over seeding of some of the rough areas where the cart and foot traffic have been concentrated.  We started seeding some areas last week and I just started seeing some seed germination this morning.  That is pretty darn good having germination in about 6 days as some times it takes 10 to 14 days.  However the conditions have been ideal and it is awesome to see!  Finally we got all the back filling and sodding around the new tee line on the driving range tee and the hitting shed completed.  It turned out very nice.  I already showed you a picture a week or so ago in one of my blog post's of the line on the driving range tee, but here is a picture of the one in front of the building.  Hopefully the fescue grass will survive better in front of the building due to all the shade that occurs in this area the zoysia never really had a fighting chance as it likes to receive a lot of sun.  Greens continue to perform well.  Along with the other cool season turf the bentgrass greens are really liking these weather conditions of late.  A lot of the stressed areas where the foot traffic or mower traffic has occurred have really started to recover and are getting less and less noticeable.  Also the firmness in the surfaces has started to come back as the roots of the turf are developing again and the water requirements are a lot less due to the lower temperatures and lower humidity.  We are scheduled for our greens aerification on September 8th, but we are going to aerify the new putting green on Thursday to try and give it time to get it healed up before the other greens are aerified.  Also this week we have started to try and tackle some of our native areas and spraying some of the broadleaf weeds that have emerged.  We were able to keep up early in the year but as the rain kept falling and areas flooded we slowly lost control of the weed growth.  Right now we are focusing on some high profile areas around tees and greens and will hopefully work our way around the entire property eventually.  Hopefully everyone has been able to get out and enjoy this awesome weather over the past week or so.   It looks like tomorrows forecast for the annual Member/Pro/Guest event is ideal and should provide some great playing conditions.  Next week's forecast looks to rise into the upper 80's to low 90's so we aren't quite done with summer yet, but with the shorter days things will start to feel cooler.