Fertilizer and bunkers.

The great weather from the holiday weekend has continued into this week and we have been taking advantage of it. It's amazing how quickly we transitioned from wet and sloppy to drying out and running irrigation at night to keep up.

This week we were able to get the fairways fertilized with Nature Safe and put out some fertilizer with crabgrass prevention in the rough. Both of these products have greened up the course in the last few days and really have the course looking great. Also, in the the last few days we have continued adding sand to bunkers and even started sodding out some of the damaged bunker edges. This will not only make the bunkers more consistent and better to play out of, but fixing the edges will help to avoid a very unfavorable lie so close to the green. We will on this next week and get these bunkers into better shape.

Adding sand to #15

Fresh edge on #5

I'm sure you've also noticed that the geese are back in full force. It seems that our harassment techniques only worked to convince them to nest off the property. Now that they have kids they want to bring them on the course and, once they have goslings they are much more difficult to get rid of until the goslings can fend for themselves. However, if we are able to harass them enough to convince them that their offspring are in danger they may walk off the property to somewhere they find less hostile. This is what we are attempting to do, so if you see us chasing around a bunch of goslings just know that we are not going to hurt them, only scare them, and one day that cute little gosling will grow into a large defecating machine that will poop all over our course and tear up the grass on our greens, tees and fairways. Hopefully, our persistence will pay off and they will go live at Heinen's or some other place.

Ian