Sweaty, Sticky and Hot!
This week started with a helicopter on the range to lift new AC units onto the roof of the clubhouse. They wouldn't let us drive the helicopter, so we started prepping the golf course for battle this week. Scheduled fungicide, nutrient, and wetting agent applications were made on Monday to both golf courses to ensure all the necessary plant protectants were in place to get ready for what has proved to be a tough Fourth of July week. Today was absolutely brutal, but tomorrow has the potential to be straight-up dangerous. The heat index is forecast to be above 110 tomorrow. We will be babysitting bentgrass for the next couple of days. We pride ourselves on absolute top-level conditions, and very rarely do we give ourselves a pass on green speeds, but this week we're taking that pass. The name of the game this week is plant health and survivability. The greens early this week were as slow as they have been all year. When it gets this hot and humid, the plant gets puffy, fat, and ...