I feel like I keep blogging about the same subject: rain. As we tried to aerify greens yesterday, the rain kept making the task more difficult. We did get all the greens aerified but did not get sand topdress down on five of the greens. The wet turf makes putting the sand down to fill the aerification holes almost impossible. Our level of success in filling the holes determines how fast they will heal (ie: the more the hole is filled to the surface, the faster they disappear). We will spend the entire day trying every technique possible to fill the holes. We also have the forecast threat of flooding rains coming tomorrow also prompting us to finish today. Updates will follow.
Starting yesterday, the construction crew began sodding the 18th green complex. They have installed bentgrass for the fairway extensions, low cut bluegrass for the intermediate cut and turf type tall fescue for the rough. They also installed some fine fescue on the bunker edges. We plan to finish sodding by tonight but might need to purchase a small quantity more next week to fix some construction wounds.