Trying to keep up with leaves! Back nine Sabot closes Monday

 

The fall leaf drop is in full swing, especially with the breeze that picked up today, Thursday. We have finished our Poa annua pre-emergent applications for the winter season. Poa is a winter annual so that means it is trying to germinate now, survive the winter, thrive in the spring and then die in the summer. Overall both courses have been pretty clean so far and these pre-emergent applications should keep it that way. The vamont on the Sabot has remained green and is playing beautifully. With no overseed process this year you've been handed wonderful conditions on the Sabot for the month of October as opposed to major disturbance from trying to sow a winter crop. 

We were able to sneak in one more core aeration on the new greens on the front of Sabot this week. These new tines are even smaller than the 1/4" cores we used for normal aeration back in August. 

The cores dried out quickly and were easily blown off the green and picked up.

We ran up to Sunbelt and picked up a 1 ton roller. After the greens were picked up the roller went to work continuing to smooth out the surface. No additional topdressing was put down this time as we wanted to use the extra air space to possibly help smooth out some seams here and there from the sod.

The tiny holes will be almost gone for the weekend and the little sod imperfections on the new greens will continue to be erased as the bentgrass matures. On Monday we will be dryjecting as well as having the drill and fill machines run across the back nine greens. Our team will work to remove 60,000 square feet of the old L-93 all next week. In two weeks time we will have 20 greens in total of Pure Eclipse bentgrass!

Enjoy the final weekend on the "old" Sabot back nine!