I'm sure you've also noticed a lot of new sod in different spots on the front nine. As part of the Nicklaus plan we narrowed the fairway at #7 and then we also replaced some areas of rough on #3 and #5 that were bad stands of grass. We ask that you stay out of these areas (you can walk in to retrieve your golf balls, but please don't hit out of them) until they are rooted, which should only be a few weeks. The weather has been very nice for sod the last few days and that, along with the fertilizer we applied to the soil, should have the roots quickly establishing.
#3
#5
#7.
Roots from sod at #6. It's only been a week and they're already starting to knit into the soil below.
Finally, you may have noticed that we haven't yet done anything about the algae developing in some of the smaller ponds. This is not an oversight on our part, in fact it's intentional. We want to have some algae in the ponds so that when our tilapia show up they have plenty of food to eat allowing them to prosper, multiple and then continue to control our algae and aquatic weeds all summer long. We had planned for the fish to be delivered on the 5th but the pond water is still a little too cool for them so we are pushing the delivery back to the 11th. This will give the ponds a few more days to warm up so that our fish are happy when they arrive. It will be interesting to see how this works. If they are not keeping up with the weeds and algae we will still be able control things as we have in the past, but we are hoping not to. For more information on the fish, I covered them in more detail here.
Fish food.
Oh and it's almost May!
Ian
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