Warm weather greeted us to start the week and the course is starting to blossom.  We had another successful Monday with fairway aeration nearly completed.  In addition a tree contractor removed specific overgrown or dead trees and ground all stumps on the course.   Most significant was the removal of three Bradford pears at the club entrance.  Did you notice?  These trees had become a hazard and needed to be removed before they removed one of us!  New landscaping will begin in that area later this month.

 

Aeration equipment galore as we start Monday morning.

 

Sunrise special!

 

 

Conditions were excellent for a good clean aeration.

 

 

Keep your eyes on the road or this could happen!  Yours truly was watching the purple martins and bam!  The operator and cart are fine.  One of the benefits of removing cores is the amount of soil we generate to fill in low areas, etcetera.

 

 

After the cores were removed and the fairways were dragged and blown they looked like this.

 

 

Seeding bentgrass into bermudagrass infested areas.  With some breaks with the weather we should make some progress in establishing more bent in these areas.

 

 

Here is a picture with the Bradford pears....

 

 

And after. 

 

 

Another view before....

 

 

And after.  New landscaping will be added soon.

 

While the fairways were being aerated the crew completed this bed at the 16th tee with new landscape edging. 

 

 

The 8th tee is about ready to open. This profile shows an excellent root system at least five inches deep.

 

 

Another casualty attributed to last season.  In over twenty years there has rarely been any algae in our ponds.  This is the pond on eleven.  Too much silt and excessive nutrient leaching has promoted this.  We are receiving estimates to remove the silt in this pond. 

 

 

Jack and Gill doing their thing!