Im Back

     It has been a while since my last post.  We have had some technical difficulties with At&t.  Our phone and internet was  broken for 2 months.  The last month we have been very busy on the course and now I finally have some breathing room to starting blogging again.
     Lots of things have happened since my last post.  # 10 green we had to sod, plug and over seed a big portion of the greens.  As you can see from the picture we lost a lot of grass that runs through the middle of the green.  The reason the turf died was because of a broken drain line.  We received a 2 inch rain June 30th.  All of the water leak out of the broken drain line into the green profile.  This over saturated the green profile and cause rapid root suffocation. You can see a perfect line on either side of the dead area.  This is in the swale of the green.  We repaired the drain line and that took care of the problem.  The green will be back to normal next spring as we wait for the sod, plugs and seed to fill in.

     We did get 3 tee's Laser Leveled this past summer.  # 7 gold/red, #10 white and # 13 white and front of 13 blue.  We will continue to level more tee's each year.

 Schaefer-Meyer leveling tee # 7 red/gold

 Installing sod # 10 white

  Tim ready to water #10

     One of the last big projects we are working on is sodding our green perimeters with Turf Type Tall Fescue.  We have sodded a 9 ft. swath around 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Putting green.  This is very labor intensive.  We are doing this project completely in house.  Cutting and removing the old sod and installing the new.  We plan to sod all 18 greens.  We are about 1/3 of the way done.

 Picking up old sod

 Installing new sod

 Almost done

# 5 completed

     Sorry for the long delay in posting.  I will try to keep you better informed in the future.