Fall Over-Seeding

Seeded lines in #8 Fairway 

It is that time of year where fall is quickly approaching and many golf courses have already begun fall projects, and most have started and some have even completed their Aerification practices. Our greens aerification will not take place for another two weeks, we plan to aerify our greens the week of October 1st.

Seed coming in on #14 Fariway

In the mean time we are over-seeding the fairways to help improve our overall density. This time of year is great for growing grass because the soil is still warm, but temperatures are cool, giving plants a much needed break from the summer.  This time of year we should get a good months worth of growing weather before it gets cold and plants really slow down.

Seed filling in, in a bare area

By the end of this week all of the fairways will have been seeded, we are seeing germination and growth in less then seven days, and are happy with the results so far. As our fairways mature over the next four to six weeks we will be in better shape to start next years golf season.

Respectfully,

Golf Course Superintendent
Nick Marfise

September Update

#3 Approach

Unfortunately it has been another wet week the golf course has received three inches of rain over the last several days and hasn't had much of a break to dry out. We were able to mow the Tees, Approaches, and Fairways only once so far this week, and it is still unknown if we will be dry enough by Friday to mow much more.

Wet Fairways have resulted in a week of no riding golf carts 

On the bright side the extended forecast looks really good for not only growing grass but also playing golf, dry and cool.

Several areas on the course have been improving and our fairway recovery methods have definitely paid off. The stress has warn off and many of the fairways are looking better. We have also gone back to a more normal mowing pattern (when we aren't wet) on fairways and have lowered the mowing height slightly to help get the playing surfaces a bit tighter.

#4 Fairway 

Our seeding efforts have paid off as we have seen lots of positive growth. Most recently we have started to seed the fairways again in an attempt to help get the thin areas addressed and more mature.

#15 Fairway

 #15 Fairway seedlings  recently mowed 

As the course dries out we will be getting caught up with mowing all playing surfaces, we will then resume fixing and improving related areas on the course.

Thank you for your support

Golf Course Superintendent
Nick Marfise