Week of May 10th
- Matthew Behl
- May 10, 2024
- 2 min read
This was another busy week of agronomy with many applications taking place across the golf course.
Spray technician Jim Kindler accomplished the following this past week:
Sprayed tees with fungicide, fertility, and insecticide
Sprayed tees with wetting agent and fungicide
Fertilizer and pre emergent to many tee surrounds
Pre emergent to pool and tennis court grounds
Herbicide applications for broadleaf weeds
While Jim was busy with his applications assistant Michael Curtin completed a wetting agent, fertility, and fungicide application to greens, sprayed broadleaf weeds at the pool area, and bunker noses through out the golf course. Michael also audited and repaired all the clubhouse and flowerbed irrigation to get ready for our annual flower installation. Michael also spent a good portion of his week helping with staff training. We are both happy with how the agronomy team is progressing.
Project 1
The contractor (Shapeworks Golf Design) is scheduled to do the final prep work to the right of one on Sunday. Sod is scheduled for an early morning delivery on Monday, May 13th. The entire agronomy team will be installing the sod on Monday. All play for Monday will be off the 10th tee to give the agronomy team as much time as possible to install the sod without the interruption of play. In preparation for the sod installation, irrigation tech Marcelo installed a quick coupler to this area in order to make hand watering the sod a breeze.
Juan also spent time with some of the staff this week and led them through a complete bunker nose maintenance and started addressing waterways throughout the golf course.
Some pics from the week:
Below is a picture of an American Woodcock. Most of you probably have never seen one of these goofy little gamebirds. They are common occurrences in the early morning hours in the spring and to a lesser extent in the fall as they migrate North and South. This season we seem to have a large resident population on the golf course with staff seeing them daily.
