Showing posts with label warm season grass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label warm season grass. Show all posts
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Yep its Weather, Getting Dirty/TIlling Deep, Zoning Out, and Early Range Shutdowns

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 Its been a while since I've made a blog post. If you follow me on other forms of social media you've seen a regular plate full of d...
Monday, October 7, 2019

Winter 2020 Spring Course Preparations

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Yes, the W word is coming soon as is next spring's golf season. The calendar continues to turn as are making our preparations for winter...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Blues, Stimulation, and Getting Tight

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What a whirlwind the last two months have been if you are a sports fan in our fair city. Great run for our St. Louis Blues as Pierre Lacl...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Collar/Approach Renovation and Bunker Work

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The staff has had busy week. We removed the false front bent grass approach on #10 and used the bent for collar repairs on holes 3, 4, 5, 6,...
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...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Fairway Bermuda Eradication Update(You can see it now)

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Posted a video discussing the Fairway Bermuda Eradication program. Spray has taken effect and it does not take a trained eye to see that th...
Friday, June 27, 2014

Details of Long Range Tee Turf Replacement

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I sent out an email blast to the membership earlier in the afternoon giving  notice of our plans regarding the turf replacement for the long...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Update on warm season plugs

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Eight days ago, I pulled some warm season plugs from three different types of warm season turf grass here on the property.  Old picture firs...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

#3 Red tee sodding

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The right side of the 3rd red tee was a hodge podge of cool season grass and weeds.  It was stripped off yesterday and new zoysia sod was la...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Warm season tee core aeration

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We would have started our warm season core pulling aeration on Monday but the surfaces were too wet from Sunday night rainfall.  We are pull...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Zoysia sod on approaches and next to bunkers

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The zoysia sod we laid last fall as a part of the bunker project for the most part was dormant when it was placed on the ground.  It was gre...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

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One of our large area rough mowers had a large hydraulic hose leak at the right side bottom of the rough along #13.  The leak was enough tha...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Warm season tee aeration

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The staff worked on coring our warm season tees yesterday and should finish the remaining tees today.  This is helpful for a number of reaso...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Green conditions and other turf concerns

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Our greens have faced some difficult conditions over the last couple of weeks with what appears to be more to come in regards to hot weather...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Dye around Greens

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Anyone who came out and played over the last couple of days has seen some marker dye being used around our greens, fairways and tees.   I wa...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Fairway aeration complete

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Completed the last 4 fairways on Monday.    Still need to do the nursery but that will not effect play.  Speaking of the nursery.  Last year...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Fairway sod work

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Beginning repairs on some zoysia areas of fairways.  Some of these areas have been killed by our bermuda eradication program and some of t...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Zoysia tee repair

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The staff replaced the damaged zoysia sod from the blue tees on holes #6 and #12 yesterday.  The damaged areas were stripped out with and s...