Up and down and around we go with the crazy weather.  This week has been very trying with the heat and humidity but conditions improve Friday and it looks a nice beginning for our club  championship.

What's more fitting than this as an example of our summer.  Three measly tenths of rain and nowhere for it to go.  This was after a two inch deluge the night before.

All we can say is bring on aerification.  I decided to try these bayonet tines on our fairways as they are SO compacted and these might do the trick.

We finally found a window to apply some herbicides in the rough to control yellow nutsedge.

Today we solid tined the greens to help them breathe.  This won't effect ball roll for our competitions this weekend.

Most of our fairways will bounce back quickly.  Here recovery is occurring in some dormant turf with those four dream days we just experienced.

Ten fairway looking good and in recovery mode but set right back with this awful weather.

We are relocating our greens nursery to below 15 tee. 

The crew has begun installing landscape edging around beds on the course.  This will improve their appearance and reduce labor.

Beautiful sunrise on August 25th with temperatures in the upper 50's!

Gill continues to be a friend to all.  What a treat it is having her!

2018 is a year most golf course managers would like to forget.  The course is holding its own but it has been tough.  This hot humid weather is not what the doctor ordered and the course is showing the stress.

This is cart traffic damage to the second fairway on Thursday. Turf roots have shrunk due to the enormous amount of rain we received.  This is why carts are restricted to the paths until the plant can fully recover.  This area will take several weeks to heal if growing conditions improve.

Heavy rain on August 2nd at the 15th green.

Thinning of the turf five days later.

If you think it is not difficult growing grass check this out. This is damage to the practice green from not enough water in the root zone!  The soil was like powder underneath and caught us off guard.

Our native soil lacks of quality topsoil and has a high clay content.  Adding to this is many of our fine turf areas are sitting on a large rocky base.  This makes growing quality turf almost impossible when we get into the summer grunge.

Preemergent herbicides have been pretty successful but not perfect.  Man is that goosegrass plant ugly.

Too much water has these new dogwoods in decline.

It's been a great environment if you're a mushroom.

How about the job our guys did getting the bunkers back in shape?  Here Tano, Francisco, and Eric compact the bunker faces on 15 fairway bunkers.  That is hard work.

There are some victories occurring.  Here new bent stolons fill in an area on the eighth green aided by our growth regulator use.

Even with the bad weather most of our fairways are performing well.  By the way I happen to believe the course looks its best in the morning.

Changes are happening and summer is gradually fading.  Here purple martins rest in preparation for a long trip south on August 2nd.

On August 4th they are gone not returning till next April and the start of a new spring.