Rain Rain Go Away

     August 15th and the Golf Course has received 8.52 inches of rain this month alone.  We still have half the month to go.  Since June 30th we have recorded a whopping 17.74 inches of rain.  The good news is at least the temperatures have fallen into the upper 70's to low 80's.  The chance of getting a root damaging fungus or just plain ole wet wilt are going down.  Wet wilt is a problem when temperature's are in the mid to upper 90's.  The green profile fills up with too much moisture.  Roots cannot get the much needed oxygen.  The plant cannot transpire to help cool itself and use up the moisture in the root zone.  The plant over heats and dies.  With the cooler temperatures we can avoid this problem.  The biggest problem with all the rain is getting our mowing and projects done.  Today we were going to over seed all of our thin greens.  We will try to get this important task done in the next couple of days.  I plan on over seeding at least 2 times this fall to get greens back. We will start to mow our good greens daily.  All of the thin greens we will continue to alternate mowing and rolling until they fill in.  Here is a little trivia for you. How many bentgrass seeds are in a pound of seed?  The answer is 6 million.  Bentgrass is a very small seed.   Be careful out there the golf course is saturated and you could easily slip and fall on the many slopes we have.