Live Oak update

Aerification is going well. We still have a lot of cleanup, dragging, and rolling to do. The grass at both Course is growing fast with the rain. We will do our best trying to keep up with mowing and blowing the excess grass clippings.

Tee Markers

We were able to paint all the tee rocks at both courses and stain all the combo tee posts. First day we got them back out at Live Oak the white and red markers were stolen on #9. We need to get new ones painted for that hole.
Yaupon reopens this Thursday 8/24/17. Live oak will close for aerification on Monday 8/28 and scheduled to reopen Friday 9/8/17

Wasps Friend or Foe??

Here is a link from the USGA about the ground wasps we have around the course. We have or have had these especially on #8 Live Oak in the mound by the bathroom.
Copy and paste the link below:

http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/course-care/regional-updates/central-region/2017/cicada-killer-wasp-friend-or-foe.html

Fairway Aerification

We finished the aerification process on the fairways at Yaupon. We also did roughs on the cart path side of the fairways and the walk ups to greens and tees.
Here are some pictures of the process:

After dragging:

After mowing:

Yaupon aerification update

We got all the tees and collars aerified and mowed out. We also did the first round of verticutting of the greens. The fairways are also being aerified and mowed this week. The greens aerification went very well and are sanded and rolled.

Greens Aerification

Yaupon started aerification today. We are going to reopen for play next Thursday 8/24. During our closure we are going to aerify greens, tees, fwys, and collars. We will also verticut greens numerous times, fertilize fwys and continue spot spraying.
Here are some pics of the greens aerification:

Rainfall

We had around 3" of rain today. We are going to be cart path only today and tomorrow.
Thanks,
GCM Staff

Live Oak

Today we double verticut and mowed greens. We are making some head way- minimal scalping, mainly around the cleanup pass. Now we are going to start bringing the HOC down.

After Verticutting:

After Mowing: