I took a quick ride up to Boston this weekend to assist in the course maintenance for the Untied States Amateur. The event is being held at The Country Club at Brookline where I was employed in the mid-1990's. I would like to personally thank Golf Course Superintendent William Spense for having me play a very small roll in presenting the course. The course is in fabulous shape! Mr. Spense and his Assist Superintendents have much to be proud of!
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.