This coming Wednesday, March 27th, the Dye Course will be performing
a light aerification to the greens, during its regular weekly closure. As discussed in an earlier post, the benefits
of doing this procedure truly outweighs the immediate minimal disruption that
follows. A light topdressing, mowing,
and rolling will follow to minimize the disruption and play should not be
adversely affected. The solid tines being
used for this procedure are approximately .20” in diameter and will not bring
soil to the surface like a conventional coring tine and cleanup is
minimal.
Notes from the Colleton River Plantation Club Jack Nicklaus and Pete Dye Golf Courses, the Bruce Borland Course and our Community Grounds Maintenance Departments.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Spring Pre-Emergent Application on the Dye Course
During the course closure on Wednesday March 13TH, the Agronomy Team was able to get out and apply a granular pre-emergent
herbicide on a fertilizer carrier to all of the fairways, approaches, and 419
Bermudagrass roughs. Oxidiazon or
Ronstar was the tool of choice for control of summer annual weeds such as crabgrass,
goose grass, and many of the other summer weeds that we battle here in the
lowcountry. This application was
carried out by the team over the course of the day and is an integral part of
our weed control strategy, so application is very important to make sure there
are no misses or over applied areas that could result in either poor weed
control or damage from to much herbicide.
This application needs to be watered in heavily to move the herbicide
off of the fertilizer carrier and activate it into soil profile, therefore we watered
heavily immediately after the application and again heavily the night of the
application. Tuesday the day prior to
application we received approximately a ¼” of rain which already had the
course in a damp condition. With the watering of the herbicide on Wednesday,
conditions on Thursday may be a little more damp than we would like but the timing
of this application is crucial based on soil temperature and we are at the end
of the window for application. Play should be affected minimally and the course
will dry down and be firm again by the weekend.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Michigan State University Collegiate Tournament
Colleton
River hosted the Michigan State University Collegiate Tournament on March 6th
and 7th. Four schools traveled from the Midwest during
their spring break to match their best against the challenging Pete Dye course.
Thirty six holes were to be played on Wednesday, and eighteen more scheduled
for Thursday; however the bitter cold 36 mile per hour gusting winds only
allowed for eighteen holes to be completed on Wednesday. Thursday turned out to
be a much better golfing day with a big congratulations going out to Matthew Moseley,
of Michigan State University, with the lowest individual score at 228. Penn State University came away with
the best team score of 916. We look forward to hosting this again in the future for the
next Collegiate Event.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Wednesday's Wind Storms
Due to the high winds today, silt fence has been installed in areas where the sand typically blows out of the dunes and some bunkers. This is to help contain the sand to those areas. We, also, will run water on the dunes and bunkers to help stabilize the sand. This picture is of #16 on the Nicklaus course showing the amount of sand that blows out during a typical windy day when the wind is blowing from the west. We will blow the sand back into the bunker and clean the area with a water hose once the wind has settled.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Lagoon Repairs on #8 of the Nicklaus Course
The Lagoon on the right side of #8 of the Nicklaus Course has been repaired. There is "touch-up" work that still needs to be completed with the sod, however we will do that when we are sodding the lagoon banks on the left side. We are currently lowering the lagoon on the left side of #8 over this weekend to reach the desired level of three feet below the top of the liner. We will take the same steps to repair this lagoon as we did for the one on the right side and expect the repair should be completed in the next two weeks, weather permitting.
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