Hello everyone, wanted to give a quick update on a few things that's been going on.

Grand Pines aerification was a success.  We pulled deep cores on the greens on Wednesday and then followed that back up with a smaller coring on the greens on Thursday/Friday.  Our holes are mostly filled with sand but will need to add a small amount of sand next Tuesday during our closed day.  The tees were all aerified and the new zoysia tees are now mown at .75" which is acceptable for playing from.  We will work to get these heavily topdressed in the coming week.  When we open you should expect the greens to be a bit bumpy, as with any aerification.  But they are healing nicely and I would suspect by mid June they will be back to rolling well.  We also pulled plugs on all fairways and collars and approaches.  These have been removed and cleaned up.  Also, we will be adding sod to #3 green as this weakened turf really suffered more during aerification. Our focus on the coming weeks will be to remove,trim, and cut out all native areas on holes 3,6,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,17 and 18.  This is a very time consuming process but feel our line of sights are being lost so we will tackle these areas one at a time. 

Miller.  It has been asked what happened to the large Post Oaks on 1 Miller.  I am not an arborist, but we have consulted with one and it is simply a root rot disease.  Post Oaks do not like to sit in very wet conditions.  The past winter and spring rains caused these Oaks to sit in an area that stayed wet.  We are looking at all other areas that contain Post Oaks and doing all we can to drain or dry up the soil.  Tuesday June 4th, we will remove the other two dead Oaks on 1 Miller and then work to reshape this whole area and prep it for sod.  I do not intend to replace these trees with more trees.  There is a vast quantity of trees in this area already and I think adding turf that will become part of the fairway will be a great look. 

Also, I have been asked what the black slime is on some of the Miller greens.  This is algae.  The greens weathered the winter well, but some areas stayed wet or damp throughout the winter and has caused our turf to thin.  We will start this week, removing this weak turf and sod and or plug these areas over the next two weeks.  Also, the Miller aerification is set up for June 24th and we will reopen on Tuesday July 2nd.

Weiskopf:

The bunker project is complete and they are looking very good.  It, in my opinion, was the best facelift of all three of the bunker projects.  We also have reshaped the drain areas on 9/10 and will continue to add more flag stone between these drain pipes.  I did not want to put rip rap in there as it's very much in play.  Also, the drains on 1 tee are working very well.  This area is no longer staying wet and we can actually mow and maintain these areas.  The Weiskopf greens have a few small thin areas and we will also plug/sod these all by June 14th.

Just wanted to bring everyone up to speed on what is going on this June.

Donny Latham