A strange weather phenomenon occurred this week.  RAIN!  We only received three tenths of an inch but it was almost magical.  There was more recovery to the turf from this than all the irrigating we have been doing over the past month.  Cooler night time temperatures are helping as well.  Yesterday we set another record-98 degrees on October 2nd.  Cooler temperatures are finally in our future beginning Friday.

One amazing panoramic view of the course.

 

 

Cool nights are waking up the turf.  Here we see some lateral recovery in our bent fairways.

 

 

Annual bluegrass weevil damage on putting greens.  Originally this pest was thought not to damage greens.  I say Bull!

 

 

This is the larval stage responsible.  We put the hurt on them by spraying Ference insecticide on Wednesday.

 

 

On Monday the guys repaired part of our spillway that leaked. This is what it looked like prior to construction.

 

 

What a nice job they did.  The broken concrete was jacked up and then rip rap and concrete were added in the void.

 

 

Additional cracks were sealed throughout.

 

 

More concrete work.  Now we need some rain to see how we did.

 

 

Wildflower bed on the third hole with asters dominating in the fall.