Today's Updates

Well Line
The pipe is all laid from the well site to the reservoir and backfilling should finish today.  Yesterday, we crossed the path near the 18th tee and worked around countless drain lines between the 11th and 18th tee complexes and 10th and 17th green.  All the wires and pipes that were damaged were carefully repaired before soil and sod were replaced.

There will be some rough looking sod and some bare soil areas along the installation zone.  This will be marked ground under repair until it heals up and fills in.  The cartpaths will be repaired next Monday while the course is closed.



Greens
We aerified the greens eleven days ago and the holes are about 80% healed.  By two weeks time we should be healed completely and the surface will continue to firm.  We may do a very light verticut next Monday to smooth the surface and bring a little sand back to the top.  I had a comment the other day, before we had sharpened mowers, "the greens were faster last week when they were covered with sand."  That is exactly right!!  A little sand is a big help in smoothing the surface and truly increasing speed.  Light and frequent topdressings, which we've been practicing for over 6 months now, will be a standard practice to manage our greens to their highest potential.






Bermuda
I had to stop and take this picture yesterday, as I mowed the driving range tee.  I'm seeing this gorgeous, blue-green, dew covered turf springing up throughout the course.  Driving range divots are filling with bermuda grass much quicker than ryegrass seed can germinate and fill.  The tees on the course are all starting to push bermuda to the top.  The fairways are waking up too and so are the green surrounds.  So if you see me crawling around on my hands and knees with a big grin on my face, this is why.  A month ago you may have seen the same thing while I was softly cursing the bermuda to wake up and get going.  Spring is here and the bermuda is coming.