Springtime fun on the course

Ok, aerification for most might not seem like a fun time, but we do our best to have a good time while we're out aerifying the course. The past couple of weeks we've been hard at work aerifying fairways, tees, green banks, collars and approaches. With a tweak here and a couple broken down pieces of equipment there, most of the aerification so far has been smooth sailing. The last part of our spring aerification is to finish up the rough and a few high wear areas around greens and tees. Greens will not be aerified until the day after Memorial Day.









All areas were aerified with 5/8" coring tines except for green banks which were punched with 5/8" solid times. For the fairways, the cores were dragged with a metal drag to break up the plugs and then blown off with our turbine blower.





The plugs from the tees and collars were picked up with our core harvester.






There's also a lot of clean-up with aerification. From back pack blowers to shovels and washing areas off with hoses.



Following the aerification of the second fairway we followed up with a top dressing of compost and then drug in again with a metal drag mat.






The next couple of weeks we will be putting the finishing touches to the course aerification and getting ourselves ready for the summer months. Lets hope for some more rain before we get to June!
- Posted by Austin Daniells, Golf Course Superintendent