Fall greens aeration

I made an error in posting our fall deep tined aeration on the calendar for yesterday.  We had a new event that was placed on the calendar during the season that was originally not posted at the beginning of the year.  We will begin the process on October 31st and will complete a few of the remaining greens by Tuesday or Wednesday of that week without interfering with play.  We will be using a solid tine which will penetrate 8-10" deep and will fill the holes.  We will put a slight kick in the aeration arms which will help to fracture our soil base that our greens were built upon.  The fracturing of this layer will allow for better water, oxygen and root penetration into this layer which is important for our greens since they have no subsurface drainage.

We have some additional plugging that needs to take place before this aeration to help fill in some damage that is still evident from the summer.  The extra sand applied to fill the holes and smooth the greens will help to fill in some of the smaller voids we still have from this summer's damage and will help support some of the new germinated plants that has been growing over the last couple of months.  We still have weather in November for good growth which will allow our greens to continue recovering until the soil freezes.  The greens should be very playable for our members who enjoy late fall and winter golf.