Agronomy Department and Course Weekly Update

December 2, 2015

I can’t remember a time when we have had green fairways this far into December. This warm and wet fall/early winter has increased the weed pressure on the course. Typically, we begin our Pre/Post emergent control around the 1^st of January. However, with the amount of weeds already blooming we will begin a post emergent application next week to clean up the course in the mean time. The plan will be to spray all short cut grass and then follow up with the roughs. Once sprayed it usually takes 10-14 days for the weeds to turn off color and die. The cold weather and dormant Bermuda are right around the corner; once the roughs and fairways are dormant we will begin our typical Post/Pre Emergent applications.  

Please remember to repair ball marks, sand divots and rake bunkers.

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 you on the course,

Kyle Macdonald, GCS, Class A