Agronomy Department and Course Weekly Update

April 3,2014

Dogwoods, Redbuds and Cherry Trees are all blooming. This week’s weather has been amazing! It has been so good that I can hear the birds chirping and Jim Nance's voice saying “A tradition unlike any other."That’s right.  The Masters is next week. The warm weather has really helped awaken the turf and everything is starting to green up. The greens look good considering they were covered this time last week and it was 25 degrees. We still have some areas lagging behind which can be attributed to the fact that when Bermuda grass breaks dormancy, it does not do so uniformly.  We have scheduled a “wall to wall” fertilizer application for Monday.  Hopefully the weather will cooperate. This application of slow release fertilizer will give us 10-12 weeks of color, which will put us on schedule for another application after the Men’s Member Guest.  The covers are scheduled to be brought into the shop this week and stored until next winter. Once we remove the final four fans there will no longer be objects around the greens!

We hope everyone is enjoying the spring weather and getting your game in shape for the upcoming season! 

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at 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,

Kyle Macdonald, GCS, Class A