Mid November wheres the rain?

Well its midway through November or Movember for those participating, and we are waiting for this rain, Yesterday we had to release some water out of our dams into the creek, as the pumps were loosing too much pressure in the lift of the water thus affecting the output and breakup at the sprinkler heads.
This week we have been doing allot of testing with the irrigation system and fixing many of the faults so there are some water patches out there where a sprinkler has stuck on over night, sorry about that, hopefully over the next few weeks we will get it all sorted.
The area on the right hand side of the 7th where the weeds were sprayed out has been cored, and had amendments added to the soil and the cores from some good areas rubbed into the bare areas, so this will see some good growth over the next 3 weeks. the next area we intend to tackle is the right hand side of the 8th. the areas we have already done on the 8th continue to grow in well with the first 2 areas fully grown in
The turfed areas on the fairways are now mostly down to fairway height and blended in very well in fact you can not pick the early areas done except after rain when going down the13th and thinking that there used to be a area that held water here once now it is just even fairway with good turf coverage.
We have coped allot of flack over the last 6t months about the way we turf.... but the key point is to remember that we are putting the turf on a sand base and this will compact around 30 to 40 % thus when the turf settles in and is mown down to the right height it will all blend in at the right levels, as is proof in the many areas around the course where we have turfed.
The greens are coming along well they are rolling true and with the verti-cutting they are running out better at the end of the putt, the speed is up to 9.2 feet and this will increase some more as we slow the growth rate down.
Thanks again to the guys who come out on Mondays at 1.00 pm to gives us a hand with doing the trenches, it is a great help to us, so if you read this and you can spare 1 hour on monday afternoon come along and meet the guys.  till next time .....keep swinging..pete

week 45 update

This week has been spent mowing and watering, with the dry weather the turf is in need of constant waterings.
we have been continuing with our turfing program with areas on the 3rd fairway near the green being done.

(Above - Here is the sand and gypsum being rubbed into the core holes on the next section on the 8th fairway)

(  Second photo  -  is of the second patch done on the 8th and is 2 weeks after treatment note all the new growth)

also with the turfing we have been doing areas with the verti-drain using core tynes to hollow tyne an area then move the good turf plugs (cores) into the areas that are thin or bare then topdressing and feeding these areas and it comes up good. the main areas we are concentrating on with this method is the 7th and 8th the first areas on the 8th we did 5 weeks ago are nearly all covered in in these areas we have also added gypsum to the soil profile to help break up the sediment left by the flood waters.
We also got in a verti-cut on the greens with out bringing up too much sand and with a few more it will continue to smooth out the roll on the greens. till next time ..keep swinging...pete