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.