Thursday, September 30, 2021

September Precipitation

 We received 3.7" of rain this month from 7 rain events and had 4 days of Cart Path Only restrictions.  2.59" of rain fell in the first 9 days of the month followed by 12 days of no precipitation.  Our historical average rainfall in September is 3.28" and we are currently 6.62" above our year-to-date average precipitation since January 1st.  Let's hope the dry weather continues thru October!

Course Update 9/30/21

 Greens have healed from the DryJect aeration 3 weeks ago and fairways are slowly improving after being aerified 1 week ago.  The cool, dry weather and shorter days has slowed turf growth and allowed the maintenance staff to address some projects in addition to regular mowing tasks.  We try to have all our projects completed in October so we can focus on leaf cleanup and other late fall tasks in November.

Lakes #9 green this morning

Fairways one week post aerification

Grove #6 fairway this morning

The staff started sodding a few bare areas in fairways this week.  This is Grove #7 looking back at the tees.

Thursday, September 9, 2021

August Precipitation

 We received 7.3" of rain in August from 15 rain events, but only had 6 days of Cart Path Only restrictions. 6.77" of rain fell during the last 3 weeks of the month and coincided with temperatures in the high 80's/low 90's.  Our historical average rainfall for August is 3.23" and we are currently 6.2" above our year-to-date average precipitation since January 1st.  August was the wettest month so far this year, and according to our records this was the wettest August since 2015.