Drought article

 Here is a good article about golf and drought put out by the USGA.  

https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/articles/2021/06/drought-and-golf-5-things-every-golfer-should-know.html 

(Might have to copy and paste link in new browser window)

We are continuing to fight this drought and lack of rain. 

The GCM Staff

Tee Markers.

 Come out and see our new Hills Country Club tee markers. Looking good…..

Maintenance Monday

 Live Oak had a productive day on the greens. Able to vertical mow, mow, and topdress all the greens. Here are a few pics from the process.  

We are planning on repeating the process this coming Monday. 

Live Oak Aerification

 Getting lots done while closed for aerification.  Double vertical cut greens, aerified greens, heavy topdressing, planet air tees, sprayed fairways, and getting the rough mowed.  We will open up on Thursday. 

Yaupon Aerification

 Few pictures from this weeks aerification at Yaupon. Greens and tees were done…..

Maintenance Day

 Today at Live Oak we applied our summer PreEmerge, ran the spiker on greens, and sprayed greens. Tonight we will water fairly heavy to get the PreEmerge and fertilizer down in the soil. Here are a few pics from the day…..

Aerification Season

As we move into aerification season I found an excellent video from the USGA……

Please copy the link in your browser and check it out:

 https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/course-care/green-section-record/57/8/golf-course-aeration-the-whole-story.html