Rain continues to green things up, in time for a freeze

 

The rain has continued to make finishing off Sabot 9 black tee difficult. Either our new soiled area was soaked or the sod farm was soaked. We managed to get the tee surface sodded this week and are aiming to get another load of latitude and tall fescue in on Monday to finish up.

We moved on to drier areas with the sod prep however since the sod farm was able to squeeze out 10,000 square feet of latitude. The team spend plenty of time prepping the area behind 18 Sabot green and removed the 3 maple trees from around the putting green and chipping fairway.

The area is now much more open and will supply more room to practice as well as sunlight to grow a quality surface.

Over on the Manakin the area between 5 green and 6 tee was prepped out and new pavers were placed under the water cooler.

With the oak tree and random hedge row gone we will be able to bring the fairway cut down towards 6 tee and grow some grass back here.

The drains on 1 Manakin were polished off finally with some new latitude sod.

The black tee on 18 Sabot has been moved back about 35 yards or so. This lump of topsoil in the foreground will be used to top the tee off and hopefully get this area sodded and seeded next week.

The sod off 11 black has been stolen in order to continue sodding over stump holes on the Sabot. These tees on 11 Sabot will be leveled and resurfaced soon. The black tee for 2 Manakin will actually meld over this way and make for a longer and better angle to play the hole.

We have seen a major green up this week, just in time for some cold weather over the next few days. The weather looks drier and warmer next week though, we may be mowing bermuda soon!