Uuuuugh.

Well since my last post there has been another 2+ inches of rain, every day of July so far.  This will not be another pity us blog, but I do want to point out a few things that concern us, but also alert members to some issues that we have no control over.

First, the many issues of being too wet I mentioned in the past post, but here is an example of uncontrollable disease.  The picture below show how affected the rough is to this type of weather.  We do very limited spraying of the rough, but because of our heinz 57 mix, almost any grass can be attacked by any disease in this type of weather pattern.

We would have to spray on a 5-7 day schedule to stop this

 This large limb shown below is from the large Oak at the 7th tee.  This was not storm related, it just dropped one day.  I point this out to be careful when your out there.  The tree and the limb seemed healthy with no obvious signs of distress.  Many of our trees are aging and most were planted at the same time, so as we see some decline around the course, we anticipate others will follow.  Especially trees that see this much traffic around them are more susceptible.  Again this is just to warn you to where you park, or stand.

I mentioned in the last post about the puffy tees.  We performed a heavy verticutt last week to remove excess thatch and apply a sand topdressing.  You can see from this picture how much material we pulled out of the tees.  Again this is not a great time to do this, but the scallping was becoming an issue.  We hope to see these heal in the next few weeks.

Lastly a little information about our lower area below the range parking lot.  It has been mentioned several times that we should reduce the size of the lower area to make the spot more attractive when leaving the 4th tee.  This is a picture of the trucks that deliver sand and compost.  They not only need space to access the area, but also turn around and leave.  A real challenge given our small entrance and tight quarters.  I struggle to find another location that is accessible for these size trucks, which has become the standard for the companies suppling our materials.  We will continue to look for solutions, but you can see we need to plan for these essential supplies.