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Course Update

9/10/2021

 
The majority of the course has fully recovered from aeration and the team is preparing the greens for the upcoming member guest. The team is excited for sweatshirt weather and being able to show off our amazing golf course in the upcoming member events.

The  heavy rain we received in August, culminating in the 9+ inches with hurricane Ida were welcomed after a hot and dry summer. The agronomy team is very grateful to not have the extensive damage that so many course in our area received. However, some of our drainage collection areas and flatter fairways are showing signs of too much rain. This past week we  applied liquid and granular fertilizers to help expedite the healing process. The team has also decided to move up our fall core aeration on fairways. This critical agronomic process will get oxygen and nutrients to our roots, while decompacting and flocculating 
our soils. Our agronomy plan needs to shift as the weather has shifted. Our plans are based on the need of the turf balance with the weather and the golf schedule. When a 200 year storm hits, we need to make adjustments. The plan is to work one fairway per day and to have as little disturbance to golf as possible starting after member guest. 

Thank you so much for your understanding. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

 

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