Well dang if another storm has hit Springfield.  The Springfield Split is dead and the Springfield Bullseye is alive.   This was the worst so far this year and required all hands on deck to get our bunkers back in shape.  Lots of flooding with 3.6 inches in a little more than an hour.  Ouch!  The crew is tiring of these large rain events and our bunkers are showing quite a decline in performance.  Only one tree fell but there are endless branches to pick up.  We are behind again.

Storm water running over the walk bridge on hole sixteen.

I'm estimating water rose at least nine feet from normal flow.

Fish in the bunker at sixteen green.

Labor Day week renovation went well.  On Tuesday we solid deep tined aerated all the greens(pictured here) and core aerated all the tees.  After the cores were picked up the tees were cleaned and brushed before applying topdressing.

On Wednesday all greens were core aerated followed by picking up the cores, rolling and then applying sterilized topdressing.  The sand is brushed in and then the crew uses back pack blowers to fine tune any heavy deposits of sand.  Maybe you heard them?!!

Work on the fairways was done as well.  Here we shallow aerate using a tight spacing in bermudagrass affected areas to create a seedbed.  This is then drug with a steel mat and then slice seeded.  

Several fairways with minimal bermudagrsss contamination were treated with non-selective herbicides and then seeded several weeks later.  We intended to do more areas and use a soil sterilant as well but too much rain put that program on the shelf for the time being.

Bentgrass filling in after only one week.

Seeding rough with a tall fescue/bluegrass blend.  Three thousand pounds have been planted so far with another one thousand going out next week.

Seed germinating in the rough eight days after seeding.  Conditions have been really good for germinating seed this September.

Three days of tree work was done too.  Here's a pic before....

And after!  More screening will be required in this area.  Ten trees were removed and some hazard pruning was performed as well. 

Julio and Pedro cleaned up this shrub bed on hole fifteen.

September is for roses.  This hybrid tea rose is called "Touch of Class".