Hello everyone, wanted to take a moment to update you on things that are going on around all the courses.

Miller:  All greens have been sprigged except for 4,13 and the new Putting Green.  These greens are being completely rebuilt so we expect to have those 3 greens sprigged later in the week.  The other 15 greens have been sprigged and we have been watering heavily to promote new root germination that will enable us to establish the TifEagle.  After 48 hours from planting we have solid root growth.  We will continue to frequently water these greens for the next 3-4 days to promote more healthy roots.  We will then start to back the watering off and push the fertility to rapidly establish these greens.  The rough shaping of bunkers has begun and many of you have probably noticed the white sand that is in the construction site.  This Arkansas White bunker sand will play very well once we open.  However, as with all new bunkers, they will be soft.  We will work diligently to plate compact the sand, but I want everyone to know these will play soft for a few months. 

Weiskopf:  Nothing major to report.  We will be verticutting the greens on our closed Monday.  This will be a slightly more aggressive verticut than our routine grooming.  June 19th we are scheduled to aerify all 19 greens.  This aerification will be necessary to alleviate compaction levels, promote gas exchange in the root zone and allow us to apply important organic amendments to the root zone.  We will also try and aerify as many fairways as we can in the one day we are closed.  What fairways we are unable to aerify, we will complete the following week.

Grand Pines:  I have been asked why the pond is so low.  Currently we are awaiting our pump contractor to deliver the transfer pump from Lake Conroe, which should be installed in the next couple of days.  Once that is in place, we will accept bids for the larger well replacement and put this in place.  Fortunately we have caught a few showers that has kept the golf courses fairly green during this lack of water.  As soon as we have water back in our ponds, we will be applying fertilizer to the entire course to speed up the recovery from aerification.

As always, please feel free to email with any questions about things that I may not have covered at dlatham@bentwaterclub.com

Donny Latham