Showing posts with label aeration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aeration. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2015

Aeration and More Aeration

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Spent a lot of time last week aerating playing surfaces at Glen Echo. Tees, approaches and finished up with the range tees this morning befo...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Good Example of Why We Aerate Greens

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A couple of excellent pictures demonstrating why we aerate greens regularly. Some might think it's just to aggravate, hogwash. Gives us ...
Monday, July 28, 2014

Video Course Update for the week of 7-28-14

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A little video course update for your viewing pleasure this week.  Continue to check blog for regular updates as well as the twitter feed on...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Cool season tee core aeration

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The staff used our verti-drain aerator to pull cores on our cool season tees today.  The main tees on 2,3,5,10,11,14, and small tee on 17 ar...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Aerating Rough

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Over the next couple of weeks, we will be pulling cores in the rough. Core aeration benefits the turf in a number of ways. Break up tha...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Deep Tined greens Aeration planned for the week of October 28th

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I wait as long as I can before the greens are aerated at Glen Echo CC.  Fall putting conditions are usually the best of the year so I try to...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Coring long range tee and solid tining/topdressing all tees on course

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We core aerated the long range tee, applied some heavy sand topdressing, removed the cores, brushed and mowed the tee.  We also solid tined ...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Fairway aeration beginning Monday, July 22nd

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We will be aerating our fairways beginning Monday morning weather permitting.  It usually takes us three days to get everything completed.  ...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

#9 Walk path or paths

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Members and staff have expressed concerns about wear and tear on the walk path between the bunkers on #9.  I've produced a video regardi...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Cool season tees core aerated

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The cool season tees were core aerated yesterday.  The tees make up parts of holes 2, 3, 10, 11, 14 and 17.  Cool season tees from what I ca...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Greens Aeration Completed on Tuesday, March 28th

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Our spring greens aeration was completed over Sunday evening, Monday until dark and completed on Tuesday at noon.  It took about 144 man hou...
Saturday, March 17, 2012

Mid-April in Mid-March

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The weather has really been beautiful over the last couple of weeks but it has created tremendous timing issues for our staff.  Normally we ...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

Needle tining/venting greens

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We are needle tining/venting our greens today(Tuesday) which will assist them in a number of different ways. The small openings will impr...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Long Range Tee

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The long range tee has historically been a problem for the maintenance department.  Lack of sunlight, size of the tee and other factors have...
Monday, March 28, 2011

7th all time season snowfall totals

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Well, with Friday/Saturday totals of 4.9" of snow, this season zoomed into 7th place all-time snowiest.  36.7"   Hopefully, we w...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Rough Aeration

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Yesterday, we began the process to core aerate our rough.  We were able to aerate the rough in the fall as well.  The staff concentrated on ...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Greens Aeration Scheduled for Monday March 21st

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As long as we do not get too much rain over the weekend, our greens core aeration is scheduled for this Monday and if the weather holds off ...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Anonymous Donor, rough aeration beginning

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We have been in need of an aerator for our rough since I arrived in 2008.  I was able to locate a pull behind rough aerator in the last coup...
Thursday, June 3, 2010

Needle tining/venting greens

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Every 3-4 weeks, we do a needle tining/venting of our greens utilizing a 1/4 tine.  We are a few weeks late with our first venting of the se...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Aerifying new sod

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We pulled out the walking aerifier yesterday to punch some holes in the new sod that was placed around a number of greens last fall.  We als...