Sunday, July 31, 2011

Course Conditions

#17 Tee
#13 Fairway

July virtually brought us no rainfall through the month with very high temperatures.  Although we had some small areas of turf that suffered under heat stress, increased humidity and timely watering has helped us manage turf water requirements through these tough conditions.  We finally did receive rain which was brought in by storms Wednesday night to Friday morning. The rainfall accumulations were 4" on Thursday and another 1" on Friday, totalling 5" in under 48 hours.  Included are a couple pictures of the course during these rains.   The drainage on the course worked well in moving water off the property and we were able to minimize the amount of standing water in areas that needed assistance.  We will be working hard this week in catching up on our maintenance and mowing.