This was the first picture I took of this green on April 6th.
This was today. 4-19-15
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This green, I feel, had the most damage from winter. Water built up through the center and killed any Poa that was there. We made sure this will never happen again by installing winter tolerant bentgrass. The sod that we installed is predominantly A-4 bent grass taken from our A-4 nursery that we built 2 years ago. This type is not affected by winter damage. We will continue to add sod and plugs to areas of greens that recieve the most damage to help prevent it in the future. Take after the cover was pulled back. Taken today. This is when we pulled the covers off. This is today. We still have some time to go and lots of plugging work to do but we will get there. Thank you for your continued support. Patience is the key. This is today. We still have some time to go and lots of plugging work to do but we will get there. Thank you for your continued support. Patience is the key. Today we are starting the replacement process on greens. We will be installing hundreds of plugs and some sod strips on most of the greens. We hope to have it completed by the end of the week. These areas will take some time to heal and will need to be topdress weekly to even out with the rest of the green. On a better note, most of the areas are filling in well form the winter damage. We will be applying sprayable fertilizers, amino acids and proteins to help the immature grass recover. These areas will be ready soon now that the temperatures are higher. I ask that everyone please stay off of the damaged greens. Foot traffic will add 2 to 3 weeks to the healing time. Thank you. Today was a beautiful day and a great one for healing the greens. We pulled over 200 plugs from the nursery to prepare for installation tomorrow. 17 will be the first green to repair followed by 5. The other greens are healing more and more everyday. We hope to have all greens repaired in a weeks time. They would be playable a few days after that. The harsh winter conditions have impacted some of our greens and those of other courses in our region. We have evaluated the greens and the initial prognosis was that we are experiencing various degrees of damage similar to that of last year. Many have asked my why we aerify late in the season. This picture is a perfect example. The holes that stayed open all winter allowed water to be channel off of the green surface. The more water we remove from the surface the less chance of ice build up. We won't have a definite answer on how we made it through winter for a few weeks yet. I will let everyone know how we fared. It has been a long winter for us at the course. We have been working inside for the past few months and cabin fever has set in. We were excited to get out side and start removing snow from greens this weekend. We were able to use 2 big snow throwers to complete this process. These two machines reduced the time to complete this process from 1 week to 1 day. The good news is that so far the greens look great. There are no signs of damage from winter and no major ice. We are hoping that winter is over and spring is on its way. The first project to be completed is finishing the sod on the tees. This will completed as soon as the snow melts. We are looking forward to a banner season this year. I think with the help of the membership it will be an amazing 2015. Monday Darin Bevard made is annual visit to Glen Oak to evaluate the course. We looked at many aspects of the course to see what can be done to improve playing conditions. Overall the visit went great and we have some ideas of how to fix some of our issues that we are experiencing on the course. Here is a list of some of the maintenance activities that we will be completing:
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Gino Marchetti Assistant Superintendent
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Brandon Wisnosky Assistant-in-Training
Melinda Wesley Foreman
Bill Noll Mechanic Jim Saslo Past Employees
Drew White - Superintendent of south course at Westchester Country Club Patrick Moran - Superintendent Berwick Country Club Josh Dixon - LA Country Club Related Links
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