Still wet but enjoying some cool nights
This past weekend we saw another 5 inches of rain come down. We again were very lucky to only see this amount as our friends to the south and east got crushed with over 10 inches. The new bunkers on the Sabot hold up perfectly! Some drier weather today has helped us get caught up with mowing.
We got a fresh load of dry topdressing sand in on Monday. A light dusting of sand went down on the greens. It's August and with over 10 inches of rain this month we need all the help we can get when it comes to firming up the greens. Reminder - Sabot greens with be core aerated on the 31st and we will have both courses closed that Monday. Sabot will be closed on the Tuesday the 1st as well to finish up the process.
This past Wednesday we spent some time at Bayville GC looking at their bentgrass nursery. 12 different bentgrasses were planted here and all showed serious improvements over our current variety on the Sabot, L93. Density, leaf blade size, traffic, disease and drought tolerance on the new varieties are amazing. We will be picking one of these varieties to be planted for the Sabot greens resurfacing which begins November 2021.
How is the bluegrass on the Sabot doing? We are starting to see a little more each morning as the cool weather has come down but it will be hard to tell until we get later in to the fall. We will be holding any seeding back until we can really see what areas need to be seeded.
We continue to demo different mowers in order to figure out how best to mow the new Latitude efficiently. This pull behind mower is a little tougher to maneuver but it does not leave behind many clippings and being able to use the tractor for different things, especially during the winter, is a huge plus.
Hunter and Ben finally got the old bridge on 7 Sabot plucked out and removed from harms way. There was not much bank left holding this bridge up and it wasn't wide enough for push carts to get across.
Hunter and Eligio engineered some new footers and beams and went to work.
The Henry Ezelle Lewis bridge is safer and wider!
The Latitude has recovered nicely from the verticutting and topdressing last week. It is thinner and tighter and ready for some fall golf!