Strange times we are living in for sure.  Golf course maintenance goes on however.  We have had a productive week.  All the greens have been deep tined aerified and we hope to complete the tees today.  Rough aeration is essentially complete except for some deep rough.  We seeded bentgrass in bermudagrass areas before we ran out of seed.  The front nine and several holes on the back are finished.  This work will continue the first week of April. 
In response to the COVID-19 virus we have removed all the ball washers and rakes on the course.  Cups have been removed from the practice green and replaced with cupless markers.  On the course  all cups have been raise one inch above the green surface.  Hit the cup and you are holed out!

 

Josh seeding large areas on the 15th fairway with the Redexim seeder.

 

 

This is what it looks like after seeding. 

 

 

Max seeding small patches in the top picture and Rony below. 

 

 

Deep tine aeration of greens by Francisco followed by rolling by Jose. 

 

 

Julio and Oscar cutting back the last of the ornamental grasses. 

 

 

Josh with a puzzled look while bringing rakes in at the beginning of the golf season!

 

 

Like a proud papa Jose shows off a greens plug with awesome roots from our green nursery.  This is going directly in our practice green.  Good turf is all about growing roots. 

 

 

The pond on 11.  Have you noticed the water is darker?  We added a dye to help reduce the promotion of algae. Less light means reduced photosynthesis and less algae.  This pond will be treated with a safe algaecide once the water temperature reaches sixty degrees.

 

 

Soil temperatures are beginning to climb.  Once the temperature reaches 55 degrees crabgrass begins to germinate as well as some disease pathogens. We will apply Dimension herbicide next week excluding where we have seeded.