The high temperatures of late July and early August seem to be over. The daytime temperatures are back in the lower 80's and the night time temperatures have been falling below 60 degrees. This is a much more favorable climate for our golf course and will help us begin to heal the damage to the fairways. This weather will also allow us to return to normal cart path rules which I am sure everyone will be happy about.
In the coming weeks we will be seeding areas of some fariways that lost turf. We will attempt to keep the seeding isolated to certain holes as we will need to close these holes to cart traffic during the seeding process. The preperation and seeding of number 16 fairway will be taking place first. That hole will remain closed to cart traffic. The fairways with only small spots of damage will not need to close completely as we can manage traffic with signs.
The overall health of the golf course is very good and the greens, tees, and most fairways are in great shape. The golf course is pretty wet still today. This weekend we recieved 2.2 inches of rainfall spread across a couple days. I walked in many fairways this morning and it was just too wet to allow much traffic although I did allow flags. I hope to return the traffic to the fairways as soon as possible.
We are very hopeful that this cooling trend will stay in place for a while to allow us some time to do some seeding and spray some much need chemical applications for weed control. Fall is just around the corner and with Fall comes another surge in bentgrass root growth. I expect that by the time the leaves are begining to turn colors few scars will be left behind to remind us of a hot and difficult summer.
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