I get a lot of Frost delay questions this time of year. I was able to find this video from the USGA that helps explain the potential problems with frost.
https://twitter.com/usgagrnsection/status/1339580660185444352?s=21
Hope this helps explain the need for delays
The GCM Staff
Our first Big frost delay. Temperatures at Live Oak 27 degrees. The delay is going to be until 9:30 this morning at both courses. Should turn out to be a nice sunny day so come out to play.
Thanks
The GCM Staff.
Today we were able to mow and get some fertilizer out on the fairways. This will help the overseeding take off and also feed the bermudagrass going into dormancy. We also fertilized the DR tee today.
This week we are going back to our regular cart path rules - that we have done over the summer months. There are a few wet areas so please keep an eye out and avoid those areas.
Thank you and come out and enjoy this Great weather,
The GCM Staff.
Tomorrow (Friday) Yaupon is reopening from our overseeding application. Today we were able to mow greens, fairways, collars, and approaches. The first few mowings will be done in the afternoons so we can mow when the turf is dry. This helps use from not tracking seed and not needing to blow after mowing. Yaupon will be CART PATH Only for a week or so. We should be back to normal mowing later next week. Here are a few pictures from today’s mowing:
Last few days we have been dealing with some irrigation hydraulic issues. The result of the issues is that the sprinkler heads come on and/or seep out the top of the heads - This has caused some wet areas especially on 1 and 9 as they are closest to the pump house. As a reminder overseeding of the Yaupon course will start on Monday 10/19
The GCM Staff.
We worked on the drainage culverts on 14 pond at Live Oak. During the heavy rains recently the water under cut the area and caused a sink hole. Good work bY Alex to repair the hole and wash. Here are a few pictures.
Had a few questions about the trench and pipe on 18 Yaupon. We had to run a new line for the hydraulic irrigation due to a leak in the fairway that runs up the middle of the fairway. The leak was not coming to the surface so we decided to run a new line to fix the problem. We have a little more Trench to connect then we will be laying the pipe in the trench and covering it back up. With the recent rains it has been too wet to finish the trench but hopefully we can get back over there soon. I would recommend playing the area as ground under repair. We were able to weedeat the grass down along the ditch- please remain playing the hole as Cart Path Only because if the pipe gets damaged all the sprinklers heads will try to come on and probably cause The pump station to fault out.
Thank you for your patience as we try to get this back to normal as soon as we can,
The GCM Staff
Today was a busy maintenance Monday. We were able to get 2 leaks fixed, mow 8 holes of rough, mow fairways, topdress greens, brush greens, and spray greens - I would call that a productive day.
Well as they say “When it rains it pours” - From limited rainfall over the past 2 months to 4+ inches over the last week and more predicted for today, tonight, and tomorrow. The courses will be cart path only for the next few days. As for course conditions, we will be playing catch up for the next few days(probably into next week). Our plan will be to mow what we can as things dry out but fairways, tees, and especially rough will be thick(long) until we can catch up. The greens at both courses will continue to be mowed and we plan on topdressing both sets of greens next week. At Yaupon we are seeing some scalping on the greens - the plan is to topdress and increase growth regulators to help with this issue. Once the rain stops we will check bunkers, push up washes and move sand around to proper depths. The good news is all the ponds on the course that were getting pretty low will fill up.
Thank you and stay dry,
The GCM Staff.
Took out our new rough mowing unit today — New Kubota tractor with a Toro Groundsmaster 1200 rotary pull behind mower. Should help us get larger areas mowed faster and better than before. Look forward to learning what all the new unit can do.
Got a few new pieces of equipment over the past month or so.
Kubota L5460 tractor, a Toro Ground master 1200(not pictured), 2 Toro pro force blowers, and a Toro multipro 1750 sprayer
Look forward to getting out and using the new equipment soon
Today aerification started— we got greens aerified, dragged twice, and blew off debris. Tomorrow we plan on rolling and vertical mow the greens. Here are a few pics from today:
Starting Monday we will start the aerification process (Last of year) at Yaupon. Reopening Friday
Live Oak is open all week
Thanks,
The GCM Staff
We have been able to aerify, vertical mow, topdress, and drag Greens so far — Tomorrow we will roll and drag the greens in preparation for the soil amendments. We have also vertical mowed, mowed, and dragged fairways— Tomorrow we will mow and blow the fairways again. We look forward to reopening on Friday for normal play.
Thanks for your patience as we do our final aerification of the year.
The GCM Staff.
Fairways:
Starting Monday our final aerification is scheduled for Live Oak. We will be closed from Monday 8/10- Thursday 8/13.
During this process we are going to pull cores on greens, vertical mow greens, collars, fairways, and top dress greens. Here is a link to a USGA video with good information about Aerification:
Please copy and paste the link in your browser:
https://www.usga.org/videos/2018/08/10/coursecare_aerationfinal-5820496652001.html
This week we were able to fix the DG areas on the cart paths on #4 tee and #13 tee areas. We also got the big hump repaired on #10 about 100 Yards from the green.
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