Beginning repairs on some zoysia areas of fairways. Some of these areas have been killed by our bermuda eradication program and some of the spots in low drainage areas were damaged during the winter.
We will probably do a couple of fairway spots each week where we have damage. #3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10,12,15.
An area on the right side of #13 intermediate that has died from our spray program. We ran the sod cutter through the dead material. The dead material in shoveled into a cart and hauled away. Sod is cut from our range nursery and laid in the area. The sod is watered heavily for a few days and we mark it as ground under repair with a white circle to alert our equipment operators and golf cart drivers of the location of the various repaired spots. It will take about 10 days or so for the sod begin to heal and the roots to become active. We then do some topdressing of the areas and fill the cracks in the sod with sand to improve playability and help the sod to fill in much faster.
The picture below is on the left side of #13. Pictured is our beast of a sod cutter.
I can't forget the cameo shot of 'Lady' every once in a while.
The completed removal of the old, dead material and laying of the new sod.
The single line of sod we did not put rope and stakes up but the double or triple row we put up some rope to protect the sod from being driven on or carts turning on the sod which can pull it up.
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