What started out as an important maintenance practice turned into a nightmare. We started verticutting greens yesterday and this morning and during the verticutting, a hydraulic seal blew out on one of the reel motors. There was no way the operator could see the leak as grass was covering the green after each pass. Once we started to blow off the greens and clean them we noticed the leak and immediately stopped the machine. The greens effected were #3 bottom photo, #5 middle photo and the 7th green. We usually do this practice several times per year and this time it caught up to us using a 15 year old machine to do it. The lines will turn yellow but will not effect putting but will be unsightly. There is little we can do now, as the heat of the oil is what yellows the turf so now we will have to wait it out. We will do our best to get these areas back to normal.
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