Aerification update

Last week the weather cooperated with us and we were able to get all the greens finished and most of the fairways. Then on Friday night we got a whole lot of rain to wash all the sand into the holes, which is perfect. On Monday, we finished fairways and started aerifying tees. We couldn't have asked for a better result. As of today we have mowed the fairways and greens twice since aerifying them. They are healing in very nicely and the more times we mow them the better they'll look.

This is what the holes look like today. You can see they are filling in well and if you look at the picture below, you can see how much sand was washed in by the rain.

To refresh your memory this is what they looked like the day we aerified them. You can see all the sand that was sitting on the top of the canopy has since been washed in by the heavy rain.

Also, if you noticed the white paint that is on the greens, that is for the guys who are mowing greens. Over the course of the year there are always spots where the collars get scalped by the green mowers. While it may only be a quarter of an inch at a time, over a few months it can turn into a foot or more. So we painted these lines to make sure that the crew knows where we want them to mow to. The green height grass will grow up to collar height and even the width of the collars back to where we want them.

We were very happy with how smoothly aerification went and I think by late next week most of those holes should be filled in.

Ian