Practice Facility

I want to remind everyone that the entire practice facility will be closed Wednesday, August 17 all day, as we will be seeding/fertilizing. 
Thank you,
Michael Coy, GCS

HOT HOT HOT!

The bentgrass fairways, a cool-season turf,  has been hit hard this year by

disease and drought which has resulted in all the brown areas you see throughout the course.  We are scheduling a heavy seeding to all these areas this Fall.  We also may begin seeding collars as early as next week.  Once areas are seeded, irrigation will be continuous throughout the day to maintain moisture till seed is established.  We will also begin seeding the practice facility, early as there were no pre-emergents applied to the area.

You know it's hot out when you see this. 

After two years now of brutal heat and drought we will begin seeding

and killing off  weeds.  The picture above is a perennial weed, Dallisgras,

 that is as almost has hard to kill as bermuda.  We will begin spot spraying

Dallis with roundup in preparation for Fall seeding. 

The front side restrooms pipe for electric was bored and trenched in
this week.  We will set the electric pole Monday/Tuesday for LG&E.
The backside restroom will be plowed within the next few weeks.

The practice green has struggled since day 1, so I decided to send some core samples

to a lab that would conduct an extensive soil profile analysis.  The results arrived last week

and stated that the soil meets the USGA standards and is suitable for growing

bentgrass.  It did state that they could tell this was a new green, due to an inadequate mat layer.

The mat layer is very important to a greens development.  What it basically does is cushion the 

plant from traffic and with probably 600 golfers on this green weekly, the plant is having a hard time

protecting itself.  We will reseed this green in the coming weeks at a very high rate,

along with the chipping green and #1 tees.  They also said 

not to adjust the soil profile, as it is the ideal condition, so DryJect will not be 

applied to any of the new areas.