Agronomy Department and Course Update
October 1st,
2013
In order to
continue great communication with the membership, we decided a weekly email to
the membership might be beneficial. I know everyone has inboxes full of emails,
so I will keep these short, sweet and hopefully packed with information. The
Men’s Club Championship is scheduled for Friday-Sunday; we expect to have the
greens rolling between 10.5 and 11 on the Stimpmeter. In order to continue to
provide great playing surfaces all of the bunkers will be raked each morning
ahead of play.
The greens will be topdressed
(sanded) (extremely light) on Tuesday Oct 1 and followed up with an irrigation
cycle of ½ inch that night. The irrigation cycle will push the sand down into
the canopy and will virtually disappear. A fertilizer application will be
applied during the maintenance block on Thursday afternoon. I am sure you have
noticed some of the greens have weak spots; we will be solid tining those areas
before the fertilizer is applied the holes created will be non disruptive to
play (see attached picture), but extremely beneficial to the plant.
The tee boxes were treated with the
2nd fall fungicide application, this application prevents Zoysia
Patch (also know as Large Patch). The height of cut on the tees has been raised
from .250 to .325; this will gives the tees density and cushion to handle the
winter stresses. The Driving
Range
McAlister Tree Company is still
working on holes 15 – 16 and we will begin work on the landscaping on holes 7-8
next week. We have grading work, sod installation, plant material and trees
going back into these areas.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me (kmacdonald@valleycrest.com)
and for more information follow us on Twitter @stivescc_vcsup and the Blog: http://vcgmstivescountryclub.blogspot.com/
See y’all on the course,
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