We continue to enjoy marvelous summer weather.  Unfortunately we have entered a very dry period and the course is showing some drought stress.  A nice soaking rain would be perfect right now.  We started purchasing water this week and are hoping there is rain in the forecast.  Thankfully the temperature has been moderate.

 

We use different wetting agents on the turf to make water more available to the plant.  This is the previous days cup illustrating a nice uniform wetting of the soil.  The white column is a sand filled aerification hole.

 

 

We appreciate everyone's help in care of the course.  Repairing divots in this manner does not help the course.  Sorry to keep harping on this....

 

 

The same divot once it has been leveled.

 

 

A repaired divot recovering nicely.

 

 

We have lowered the height of cut on the collars and it looks great.  Here you can see four distinct heights of cut behind the 7th green- green, collar, step cut and rough.

 

 

Man versus nature!  Fox urine damage on the 12th hole.

 

 

Bermudagrass is not the only weed invading the rough.  Here bentgrass is growing amongst tall fescue.  This will be controlled with our combo herbicide application that was applied this week.

 

 

Pylex herbicide lets you know how much bermudagrass you have!

 

 

Suppressed bermudagrass in the 15th fairway.  The next application is next week.

 

 

An unusual site.  An owl seen on Friday morning on the 10th hole.