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

Fountain is Back

 This week we were able to install the New fountain on #9 Live Oak. 

Yaupon venting

 Yaupon was able to get a venting on the greens today. It was the same process we did at Live Oak a few weeks ago. This is a great practice coming out of the cold weather to get the air exchange started for the plant. The process after rolling is very minimal disruption to the surface. 

Maintenance Monday

 Finally some good weather to get some maintenance done to the greens and fairways. At Live Oak we sprayed Iron and pigment on the fairways. This should help with definition between fairways and roughs.  On the greens we ran the viper tines with the aerifiers.  This will help get some well needed oxygen in the soils.  We will finish with the venting of greens tomorrow in front of play —followed with a speed roller to smooth the surface.  Here are a few pics from today’s work…..

Jaws

 We were able to get some work done on Jaws this week. Think it should be a big difference for the up tee players.          

     Before and after from tee….