With the excessive heat, we have slowed down on our more "aggressive" practices. These practices include brooming, verticutting and topdressing greens, tees and fairways. The "mechanical" abrasion we create with these actions can add unnecessary stress to the grass plant. Also, the night temperatures are staying in the early 70s with humidity between 70-90%. This combination of temperatures and humidity can lead to turf damage if not managed properly. So, we continue to groom the course but in a bit more "defensive" way.
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.