It's Member Guest week.  It is always fun prepping the course for a big competition.  We continue to be in catch up mode but finally have enough labor to get caught up.  Some of our labor is pretty green so there will be some growing pains. 

It's Monday of Member Guest week.  Double cutting greens and edging bunkers.

Putting a nice edge on the greenside bunkers followed by tamping the entire perimeter.

Spraying the fairways prior to the big event.  Fairways are sprayed preventively every two weeks.

A light dusting of sand topdressing to help true up the putting surfaces.

Erosion controls being applied at our garden.

Some great practice technique at the chipping fairway.  Thank you!

Cicada remnants.  The dieback is from the female cicada laying her eggs in numerous slits along the outer branches of various trees.  Each female lays up to 400 eggs!

It's the first day of summer and the lake is full.

Juvenile red tail hawk recently fledged from the pine on the ninth hole.

Monarch butterfly on Pow Wow Coneflower.

 

 Well the nice fast golf course is gone for a while.  Over four inches of rain fell on Friday.  Nearly all the bunkers were washed out and today we are fixing the mess.  The weather does look promising as we enter the new week and looks down right spectacular for Ladies Member Guest.

Yeah we received a lot of rain.

Eleven pond went over the dam and into Sixteen green bunkers.  These poor fish were washed out.

Nearly every bunker suffered serious erosion.  This is the 3rd hole.

Several hours later after our heroes arrived we have this!

Excellent results from Trimmit growth regulator on the practice green.  The brown grass is the annual bluegrass severely suppressed and bentgrass growing into it.

New sand added to the practice bunkers.  Several bunkers on the course have received sand as well.

Pylex herbicide @ .10 oz/acre yellowing up common bermudagrass on fairways and tees.  I said that right- One tenth of an ounce per acre!

Finally weed free.  Thank you Julio and Pedro!

 Bit by bit we are catching up.  One more week and our summer help arrives.  For the first time not one college student on our labor staff.  Truly strange.

Hot off the press here is Francisco mowing our new and popular intermediate cut.  Thanks to our new Assistant Shawn Gill who labored getting the first cut done.

Here it is after it's second mowing.  The scalped look will gradually disappear.

It was a very Poa like spring but we have nipped it in the bud!  Here is some of the yellow Poa being crowded out by creeping bent.  Multiple applications of Trimmit Growth Regulator helped knock it out.

We are back to weekly light topdressing of greens.  Here Patrick pushes a spreader across six green.  Routine light sanding improves ball roll and turf health.

Look close and you will see the sand.  A light watering followed by rolling the next day knocks the sand down.

We have great workers.  This is Patrick trimming around the entire 11th pond before pushing the spreader.  Patrick's family use to be members.

More of our crew playing mulch catch up.

A new bee hive was added in the wildflowers below the third tee.