This past week we did our 2nd aeration of the season. Our normal aeration is a deep tine followed by regular tining and finished up with a Dryject application on top to close up holes and inject more sand into the holes. This application we put approximately 125 tons of sand into our greens and approaches. Normally this is done in mid August which ensures the quickest recovery time, however with the US Am around this date and members having no access to the course for 5 days we decided to push this off to October 31. This process does take a considerable amount of labor, so trying to push this off any later, we would have had less staff and less daylight to do so. The first week of November is usually cooler and grass stops growing but right now we will be in the mid 70s for the next few days, so some recovery may occur. Unfortunately most of the holes will be visible until next spring, especially once temps start dropping. We will push recovery along as much as possible, but once temps cool down, fertilizers will not do much.
Next spring our cultivation program will be Drill and Fill in March, followed by Verticutting and a 1/2" core aeration on greens. This will change up what we are doing a bit but will be vital to a successful 2023 season. We will also be incorporating poa aeration plugs into the 2 practice greens and 11 twice in April.
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