Green and collar repairs

 The staff has been busy over the last couple of weeks making repairs to a few of our greens and collars.  The collars that have been sodded from our nursery green include the PG, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 16 and 18.  We have additional repairs still to be completed on #14 and #15.  Our collars are contaminated with a large amount of poa annua which has a tough time surviving during normal summer heat.  We have been using the green height bentgrass nursery next to 18 tee to replace the collars and do some additional plugging
of some of our greens.  We intend to reseed the nursery green to Penn A-4 bentgrass once the turf has
been used so it will be ready to use next season as necessary.  Let's hope it is not used very frequently. 
A-4 is a variety of bentgrass that has shown great results so far on greens renovated in our area and across the country.  We will also be using sod next season from our collar nursery that is next to the 16th tee to replace some additional poa infested collars.  

We did a light verti-cutting today, topdressed, used our brush to help stand up the grass and mowed the greens.  We will be doing some additional hand topdressing  this week which will assist the weak areas to fill
in a heal.  The sand will help provide protection for the plants as they fill in place and will improve ball roll.  We continue to reduce our height weekly and have been dragging in our sand which stands up the turf.


Assistant Skip, Nick and Jason working on #9 collar last week.



Jason and Tom working on #6 green.



Jason and Tom finishing the last couple pieces of sod on #6 green.





A damaged spot on #9 green that has new bentgrass growing.





Here is a close up of the same spot.