Recent rains.

 We are working hard to get caught up on mowing. The recent rains has made it hard to consistently mow roughs, fairways, and tees... with this being said we are pushing hard to get caught up. The clippings are going to be thick until we can get areas blown off. Another side effect of skipping some mowings is that the quality of cut goes down since the mowers are cutting so much grass at once. We hope to get caught up this week and will also look to apply a growth regulator to slow down the growth. We appreciate everyone’s patience as we work on getting everything mowed back down.  

Thanks, 

The GCM Staff

New....

 We were able to get the new cups, flagsticks, and tournament flags out at both courses. We utilize the tournament flags for all big tournaments that use a Pinsheet made up by the Proshop. 

LO maintenance Thursday

 Today was a busy day for the guys. At Live Oak we topdressed, vertical mowed,  brushed, and mowed greens. We were also able to get fairways and tees mowed. Few pics from the greens work....

Gold Tee Players

 Yaupon gold tee players- some good news. We were able to get some tree trimming done on 12 for you guys on the back tees. Hard to tell in the pics but good improvement- Really opens up the fairway view. 

The GCM Staff continues to push the Bermuda both greens and fairways to help with winter grass transition.     

Before and after pics....

Fertilization Day

 Today at Yaupon we were able to get a healthy fertilizer application down on the fairways. As the transition from winter rye starts heading out we will need to push the Bermuda grass.  This will continue until we get fairways back where we want them. We also got a granular application down on some greens today and will finish them tomorrow.  This is the same transition process as the fairways.  The transition this year is coming on fast as we had a wet cool May- now the heat is on. The guys will keep working hard to get the course where we want it. 

Maintenance Thursday

 Today the crew got a lot accomplished. We top dressed greens, mowed the range, Unirake on the fairways, mowed fairways behind, and then got them all blown off. Thanks to all the guys for putting in a long day. 

Aerification

 Yaupon aerification went well.  With the rains and having to water greens it is extremely wet around the greens. As aerification heals up we will try to get it dried out. We are starting to see transition from the overseed on the greens- could need to patch a few of the areas now that the heat is on. We are going to give it a week or so to see what will recover before we start patching some areas.