Turf Talk

STEVE GRIESINGER, COURSE SUPERINTENDENT

Hopefully, by the time this reaches you, the snow and super cold weather will be history. The cold weather did give us the necessary time to grind all of our reels. All the tight cut turf is mowed with a REEL type mower. As a necessity, these reel type blades need to be ground every year. It usually takes us about 6-8 weeks to completely remove the reels, grind, re-build bearings and bushings, install knew bed knives, and put back on the machines.

Aerification is scheduled for March 29 and 30. We appreciate your patience during the necessary evil of disrupting the greens surface. Also, we will be pouring a new sidewalk to the bathrooms on #5, as we had to temporarily close the ladies room. We had to jackhammer the floor in the ladies’ side and replace the underground shut off and line that goes from the sidewalk into the building that supplies the water (argh, that is some bad luck).

See you on the course!