Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Greens hydrojected today

All 19 greens were hydrojecting of our  today by E&E Enterprises.  Owner Tom Edgerton and his two teenage sons operated 3 machines that vented our greens in about 4 1/2 hours.  Apologies to the 9 hole ladies who played through the last couple of holes as the guys were completing their work.  The process will help to reduce compaction, exchange carbon dioxide with oxygen, allow for water penetration and will help to begin the process of drying out our greens from the wet and humid conditions of the past couple of weeks.  Their is little if no surface disruption from this process.  Check out the link below to see the aerator in action.  This process along with our needle-tined operation with our verti-drain should assist our greens with their recovery once the weather breaks over the next few days and weeks.

http://toro.com/golf/cultivation/aerator/green/flash/clip1.html

The hydroject pulses high pressured water into the green surface creating a hole that goes about 4-5" deep.

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