Happy Saturday morning.  The course received 1.5" of rain last night.  The best time to evaluate drainage is when it's raining and we have seen plenty lately.  Drainage work begins this week.  We had another excellent week of work on the course.  All the greens received deep tine aeration and then were treated with a season ending fungicide application.  More sod was laid on holes 2, 16 and 17.  In addition we are core aerating bermudagrass in fairways and then overseeding with bentgrass.  Hopefully this will weaken the bermudagrass and the bent will germinate over the winter/spring. We shall see.

Deep aeration of greens.  The more we do this the better the greens!

Preparing two rough for new sod.

Beautiful work by the crew at 17 green.

Core aeration in bermudagrass encroachment in 18 fairway.

After the fairway is drug and blown it is seeded using this spiker seeder by Josh.

All the tulips have been planted and mulched.

The drainage equipment has arrived.  Work begins on Monday.

A lot of hooded mergansers were at the course this week.  Mallards too.