Fire ants.

With the recent rains (@2.50") our friend the fire ant has come back around. Please be careful the next several days. 

Yaupon is back open today and will remain cart path only for the next week or so. 

Thanks for you cooperation. 

Overseeding.

Today we have started putting out our winter overseed at Live Oak. Yesterday we were able to get the seed on the tees and today we are concentrating on the fairways. We will reopen Live Oak on Monday 9/29. We look forward to having a nice overseed at Live Oak this winter. 

Thanks from your GCM Staff

Rainfall

Last nights rainfall total is in the neighborhood of 5". 

We will be Cart Path Only all day and we will reevaluate tomorrow. 

There is a lot of debris and trash all around the course that we are working on getting cleaned up. Also we will be working on repairing the bunkers that washed out last night. 

With more rain forecasted mowing anything will be a challenge the rest of the week. 

Yaupon GCM Shop

We have also got the Yaupon shop repaired from the wind storm. The back covered storage was lifted up by the wind and mainly dislodged the support beams. 

Before:

After repairs:

Live oak storm shelter

We finished repairing the shelter on #6 tee box today. It was damaged by the high winds in the storms a few weeks ago. 

Equipment update

We received a couple of new pieces of toro equipment this week. 

The top is a toro multi pro 5800 sprayer. It is a 300 gallon tank that will help us cover more ground. 

The bottom picture is a new heavy duty toro workman. This vehicle will help move bigger/heavier material.   It also has a planet air aerifier/spiker with it. This will allow us to keep the greens opened up in between normal aerifications. This process causes minimal disruption. 

We are excited to have this upgrades and look forward to getting a lot of use out of them. 

Equipment

We received a new greens triplex this week. We will keep the mower here at Yaupon and are excited to upgrade our fleet of equipment. The triplex is a Toro 3250-D with groomer brushes. We are also expecting a new Toro multi-pro 5800 spray rig. It is going to be a 300 gallon tank which will help us cover more ground a little faster. I will keep you updated on its arrival. 

Spraying tees and collars.

Yesterday at Yaupon we were able to spray all the tees and collars. We were able to spray a product that should eliminate all the weeds. It will also remove the last of the overseed that is hanging around. There will be some browning from the spray that will be temporary. We will work on getting live oak sprayed on Thursday - weather permitting. The application will need to be repeated in 10-14 days to knock them all out. 

Thanks. 

Live Oak

Live Oak is open today for member play. On this cold Thursday morning Live Oak re-opens after an extensive aerification. 45 degree temperatures this morning is offering a cold start of the day. Rainfall of 3.10" this week has help with greenup. 

RAIN!!!!

Today we will be Cart Path Only. 

Last night rainfall totals were around 2.7"

Thanks for your cooperation. 

Live Oak update

Today we are having the fairways fertilized.  We continue to push growth to the Live Oak fairways and we are seeing improvement. The temperatures are finally warming up to help us with recovery. Also today we are dusting the greens with a light topdressing. As I said last week this practice will continue weekly leading up to aerification starting May 5th. 

Yaupon

Yaupon greens are doing well since aerification. We have begun to lower the mowing heights on the mowers since the aerification. Each day we get a better quality of cut and tomorrow (Friday) we plan on mowing and rolling the greens. We look forward to seeing you out on the course this weekend. 

Live Oak

Today at Live Oak we applied a balance starter fertilizer to the fairways--So when it does decide to finally warm up for good we will be ready. We also topdressed greens and will continue this weekly to help with the ball roll. Starting next week we will begin rolling the new sod on the greens that was completed this week. 

Sod work on Live Oak greens.

Today we have started laying some sod on the Greens at Live Oak. We started on #14 and #15 ( should be done today). Then we will move to #10 and front of #11. After a few days of watering the new grass we will begin rolling and topdressing these areas. We would appreciate that you play these areas as ground under repair and try walking around the areas until we get it to root in some. Thank you for your cooperation. 

Weather Update

After a few days of warm night this morning we are at 39 degrees. With similar temperatures expected tonight. We need the warm nights to help with the Yaupon aerification recovery. I hope this is the last of the winter temperatures. 

Weather

This morning when we got here at 6am it was 71.9 degrees and now as of 6:45 it is 57.8 degrees. We only got a light sprinkle of rain. Tonight forecast lows are in the 30's so be ready for the change. We hope the next 2 nights are it with the cooler than normal temperatures. 

Live Oak Update

We continue to push the Live Oak fairways and rough with fertigation and extra granular fertilizers. We are seeing some slow improvement but with low temps in the 40's over last weekend and lows for Monday and Tuesday expected in the low 40's it has hampered the growth a little. Also starting Monday we are going to start patching weak areas on Greens. The sod farm was finally able to start cutting sod due to the slow weather start of the year. We plan on starting on #14 and #10 then moving to the front of #11 and the front of #15. All these areas were priblems before the very harsh winter. 

One last note-- Live Oak will be closed on Monday 4/14 and Thursday 4/17 for extra fertilization and some light topdressing. Yaupon will be open those days for member play. 

Yaupon Aerification

Aerification went well at Yaupon this week. We will be reopening tomorrow Friday for tee times at 7:30. 

Yaupon aerification

Yaupon will be closed Monday- Thursday of next week for aerification. Live Oak will be open next week. 

Thanks, 

GCM Staff. 

Live Oak

Yesterday we began sodding patches on #14 green. These areas are historically bad but with extensive tree pruning we are hoping to get more sunlight to the green surface. Once we finish patching #14 we will be moving to #10. We also removed a lot of limbs from the big oak right behind the green. Once we get the patchwork finished we plan on pruning the tree roots that grow in the greens mix. These feeder roots steal water and nutrients from the grass on the greens causing areas to thin out and become weak. 

We are finally getting temperatures warm enough to green up the common bermudagrass fairways. In a couple of weeks we should be seeing some growth in the fairways due to the warmer temperatures. We have started spot fertilizing the fairways until we go wall to wall in the next week or so. 

Topdressing Greens

Today at Yaupon we are putting a light top dressing on the Greens. We will continue to topdress at least every other week. Remember that Yaupon is now closed on Mondays and Live Oak will be closed on Thursdays. 

Thank you--- GCM Staff 

Stumps

Today we are at Live Oak getting stumps ground. This is huge for playablity and it will also help out our Crew with mowing. This next week we will work on cleaning up the debris and then will work on sodding over the removed stump areas. 

Stump marking

Please disregard the yellow hazard stakes placed around Live Oak. We are using them to mark old tree stumps. Please do not move or pick up these stakes. 

Thank you--- Tyler. 

Frost Delay.

Today 1/22 we will have a frost delay until at least 9am. Please call your pro shops for any adjustments on tee times. 

Thanks. 

Cart Path repair.

We have started repairing cart paths. We will work on areas as needed the next month or so. Today we fixed the area by #6 green at Yaupon. This repair will be blocked off for a couple of days so please keep your eyes open for the cones. Thank you

Frost delay.

This morning is one of our coldest of the season(23 degrees). We will have a Delay until at least 10:00 this morning.