We have made it through the most difficult time of the year for the Bermuda. Since March we have seen very good recovery on some areas on greens, through sound cultural practices, supplemental irrigation, hand watering, and most importantly mother nature. We seem to have skipped spring and gone directly into almost summer temperatures since mid march, this has been a top factor in the recovery of the weak areas throughout the golf course. Also on Friday April 10th, we sodded out what we as a department felt was the worse areas, back of #1, back of #2, back and front left of #4 and back of #9. #5, #8, & #12 will be addressed Monday. We will pay extra attention to these areas going through the aerification schedule and also during the summer to ensure that the condition of these areas improve next season.
April 9th we began the process of removing sod on these areas. Pictured is back on #1.
Early morning on April 10th we began the process of replacing with healthy Tif-Eagle sod.
We are expecting this sand to be washed in through the weekend with hand watering and overhead irrigation.
As expected the sand has worked into the low areas and turf leaving us with a much nicer appearance.
We had to cut sod from the putting green to finish up, we will be replacing this on Monday afternoon.
