New rough unit.

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.  

 

New Equipment Coming In.

 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  

Update from Yaupon

 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:

Yaupon Aerification

 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

Aerification updates

 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:

Greens aerification:

Greens after drag:

Vertical mowing greens:

After drag of fairways:

Live Oak Aerification Week

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

We will add some pictures as we go through the process next week.

Remember Yaupon is open all next week as we work on Live Oak. 

Yaupon’s aerification is scheduled for 8/24-8/27 for a similar aerification procedure. 

Thank you and we will see you out on the course

Stay Cool and hydrated,

The GCM Staff 

Cart Path repair

 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.  

10 before:

10 after repair:

4 before:

4 after repair:

13 after repair: