Today marks the end of July and it has been one heck of a month! It will go down as the second wettest and the tenth hottest July in Philadelphia history. It is crazy to think that this July will still be the tenth hottest with the last 6 days being well below average in temperature. As for the golf course, we just completed light topdressing of the green and approaches. We have started our annual process of slit seeding the rough with tall type fescue grass. We hope to see you on the course soon!
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.