Today we will spend our time preparing for the potentially heavy rains. We will spread sand in low lying areas in the fairways, finish applying crabgrass pre-emergent products and packing down some bunkers. We also just finished painting the first coat on the big pool. The staff will concentrate on mowing as much as possible of the play surfaces. We do this because we feel we will miss a day or two of mowing due to wet conditions.
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.