I had the pleasure of spending a half day at the US Open at Congressional Country Club. It is always educational to observe the techniques that the host club is using to prepare for the Open. I also had time to meet with other superintendents and USGA agronomists to trade ideas on how to make our course a better place to play. From what I saw, it will be a great test of golf.
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.