Happy Masters week! Sabot greens aeration complete
It has been a long time since we have been rained out of an aeration but this past Monday that is just what happened. 1.5” of rain soaked the campus all day Monday so Tuesday the aerators started making noise at 5am. Just like on the Manakin, 1/4” cores were pulled out of the greens first then blown off and cleaned up.
A variety of different amendments were spread out and then the greens were topdressed heavily. Another two aerators equipped with half inch solid tines went over the dry sand and created nice channels for everything to fall into. This is at least double the amount of sand that was used in past springs which will go a long way in keeping our organic layer functioning properly and allowing water to flow down through the sand based system.
The greens are brushed in, blown off, rolled and then sprayed with a foliage fertilizer package to help them start to recover. They will not be mowed this weekend and will receive their first dry mow on Monday.
The rain also jammed up our bunker project on 16 Manakin this week. The guys were able to get back into it on Wednesday but it will be another week until we can get concrete and new sod in to button it up. The blue line indicates where the bunker will shrink to, increasing the walk and walk off access to the green.
Projects like this never take less soil than you think! Dry soil has been coming in from the dump area and is once again covered up for some in bound rain. Next week looks dry and productive!
