Cart Path Rules

Please follow the daily cart path rules....

Yaupon is cart path only 4,6,17,18
Live Oak is cart path only 4 and 6

Please check in the Proshop before each round to look at the sign with the rule of the day.

If you see wet areas please avoid them with the carts

Thanks
The GCM Staff

Trimming Season

Tree trimming has started at both properties. Here is a before and after on 9 green Yaupon

Frost Delay

Today we will be delayed until 10:00am. Right now we are at 26 degrees

Thanks
GCM Dept

Frost Delay info

As the weather cools off - here is a good article from the USGA about frost delays:
Please check out the Link below....

https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/articles/2018/01/5-things-to-know--frost-delays.html

Thank you
The GCM Staff

Yaupon Golf

We have gone to 90 degrees at Yaupon (weather permitting).   Holes 4,6,18 will remain cart path only due to wets spots draining off the hills.

Thanks
The GCM Staff

First Mowings

Working on getting the first mowing completed on the overseeded areas at Yaupon before the rains tomorrow(Thursday).  Fairways and par 3 tees mowing out well - as we are trying to avoid mowing any area that remains saturated.  The greens are still germinating but trying to get mowed one time before the seed starts to pop.  All the mowing is done in the afternoon(dry) so we will not track any seed out of the desired areas.  We appreciate staying on the Cart Path as we work on getting the seed up.

Thanks,
The GCM team

DG Areas

Guys at Live Oak are working on new DG areas and freshing up other DG paths.  Looking GREAT and going to work on other areas this winter. 

First Frost

We have our first frost delay of the year today - it is 13 days earlier than last years first delay.  We are looking to be delayed until @9:45 this morning.  So stay warm or come on out and enjoy breakfast and coffee at the clubs

Time Change

Reminder that Saturday night is the Fall time change.  Remember to set your clocks back 1 hour before bed

Overseed

This past week we were able to get out the seed at Yaupon. Fairways, par 3 tees , collars, approaches, and greens all seeded. Last night's big rains(@2") was Not good timing- with the greens seed only down since Tuesday we did experience some washing. On Monday, we are going to apply some more seed to the greens especially the ones that appeared to have washed the most. We are still playing on opening Friday 11/1 to cart path only. We will remain Cart Path Only until the seed gets established. As for Live Oak the new fairways are Not being overseeded. The only seeding over at Live Oak will be the DR tee, Par 3 tees, 14 blue tee, and 14 approach. The crew is also going to freshing up the fescue areas we established last year. Here are a few pics of some of the washing at Yaupon:

Around the Course

It has been a busy week in the GCM dept.- the guys got greens at Live Oak topdressed, pre emerge out, 5 pallets of tif tuff sod out, and a final fertilizer application on the fairways. Please avoid the new sod on 6,10,11 fairways (as we will be watering extra in those areas).  We also got the DR tee overseeded today as well. ( will be mats only for about a week).
Just a reminder Yaupon will be closed Monday 10/21-10/31 for overseeding. We are doing Par 3 tees, fairways, collars, approaches, and greens.

Fall Pre-emerge

Today at Live Oak we are getting out a late season pre-emergent for winter weeds on the new fairways.

Topdressing Greens

https://www.usga.org/course-care/regional-updates/southeast-region/the-benefits-of-sand-topdressing.html

Above is a USGA article about the benefits of top dressing greens. I have had some questions about why we top dress greens on our closed maintenance days.  I decided to post a link to an article from the USGA explaining why this is a good thing.  This has been and will be a continuous practice during the growing season.

Thank you and hope everyone comes out to enjoy the Warm weather.

Lakeway Cup

Final round of Lakeway Cup today. Team Live Oak has a slim 1 point lead on Team Yaupon. Should be an exciting finish to this years Cup. Greens were mowed and rolled(rolling Great). New fairways are holding up well so please remember to Fill all Divots. Good luck to both teams.

Opening Day

We have come a long way in the last few months. Tomorrow Friday the 13th we will be open for morning tee times followed by our first Round of the Lakeway Cup. In the morning players will need to get a pinsheet as we will have out our white tournament flags all day. Good luck to Guys playing in the Cup and May the best course win. A reminder from the email sent out-we will be Cart Path Only on holes #11 and #16. We are also going to play winter rules as we open back up for play. As for carts we  will be mostly 90 degrees- I ask that if you see a thin area or worn area please take a different route back to the cart path.(This is always good practice at any course to not beat down one area)

Thanks and have fun. The guys worked extremely hard this summer so my hat is off to  the crew

Tyler Easterwood
Golf Course Superintendent

Pics of Live Oak

Here are some pics from Live Oak.

Update.

Monday and Tuesday Yaupon will be closed for aerification and vertical mowing.  The course is holding up well with the heat and lack of rainfall this summer. This will be the third and fourth closed day of the summer. I would like to thank the GCM staff for all the hard work through the summer so far. Live Oak fairways are coming... still fertilizing weekly along with mowing. We have laid a couple of trucks of sod with one more load scheduled for Tuesday. I began rolling the fairways this week in hopes to smooth them out as much as possible. Looking forward to opening Live Oak in September to Cart Path Only.

Course update.

This week we sodded a few areas at Live Oak. It was mainly some approaches that were a little thin. Yaupon collars are finally starting to transition from the winter ryegrass-leaving some thin areas on the collars. We are closed 8/12-8/13 for aerification at Yaupon and we will make sure to aerify those collars. Her are a few pictures from athe sod work at Live Oak...
                          Before:

                       After:

First mowing

Today we started mowing the front 9 fairways. Looking to get them mowed and then apply another round of fertilizer this weekend.

Fertilization

Today the time has come to start pushing the fairways with a fertilizer application. The front nine will receive fertilizer and a dose of water this afternoon. We are about at the 3 week point for the front nine and 2 week point on the back nine - Since planting the sprigs.

Wet Conditions

Live Oak fairways are wet. Some wetter than others but after the rains of almost 1” this weekend along with the new sprig watering we have to stay off of them.
We had another evening ride into 11 fairway. It was after the 5:00 hour. So please if you are out around the course or live on the course please stay on the cart path.

Thanks,
The GCM Staff

Please Stay off

Please stay off the fairways at Live Oak.  Once the sprigs go down we water extensively causing saturated soils. This is what happens when you drive out into a fairway with a cart......

Action Sprig Video

https://twitter.com/tye_turf/status/1141027804357758976?s=21

Thanks for everyone support as we improve the course.

The GCM Staff

Sprigs are Here

They have started putting out the sprigs on the Front 9 at Live Oak.

Fairway project

Yesterday they started smoothing out the fairways as the grassing date is fast approaching. The anticipated plant date will be mid June so lots of work to get done the next 2 weeks.

The GCM Staff

Live Oak Update

The first part of the project has been completed. The rough tilling of the grass has been finished. Next week a crew will come in and do some finishing work followed by the sprigs going down. ( probably mid June). LakewayMUD has also started there project around the perimeter of the course and are on #2 now.

Goosegrass info

Here is a little information about goosegrass from the USGA. We have made 2 applications of our PreEmerge this season. I just thought the information was worth putting out to the membership.

Here is the link to the article:
(Probably will need to copy and paste it into your browser)

http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/course-care/regional-updates/central-region/2019/gear-up-for-goosegrass-control.html

Fairway Project

The project started today at Live Oak. We think it is going to be about 1 hole per day. Continue to check back as I will update the blog as the project moves forward.

Remember if you have not you can follow the blog to get up to the minute updates.

The GCM Team

Root Pruning

Got some root pruning done around some of the greens at Live Oak yesterday.

Yaupon Railing

We were able to finish the new railing at #13 Red tees at Yaupon. Think it came out great with a nice wood stain to help protect it.