This is a picture of our granular fairway fertilizer application. This was started Monday after the outing and completed before dark. These particles will be incorperated with the thatch layer on fairways and slowly be released throughout the growing season. This is along with our biweekly foliar fertilizer application. This will help the fairways stay healthy and fight dieases.
We are preparing for this weekends event. In preparation we verticut fairways last Sunday and Monday. We also started double cutting greens on Tuesday morning to get our speeds back up. I hope that the weather predicted, .9 inches, for Thursday and Friday will stay away so that the course will firm up as well. Green speeds that we are looking for for the weekend are 12+ but if we get the rain predicted then they may only be 11 to 11.5 or less. The current weather pattern we are in is giving us cool dry days and even cooler nights. This is perfect for tournament prep at Glen Oak.
We have also been cutting the rough 7 days a week for 10 hours on the weekend and 12 to 15 hours on weekdays. It is cut at 2.5 inches which is the same height that we have always cut the rough at. It is very thick right now. Usually this time of year it is 80 to 85 degrees and the rough starts to turn dormant and thin out. This year has been like an extended spring and the rough is taking full advantage of the weather. We will continue to battle the rough 7 days a week until it slows down.