Golf Course Superintendent Profession Video

For those who would like a little better understanding of the golf course superintendent profession, here is a short video recently produced by the Philadelphia Association of Golf Course Superintendents.

Winter Course Set-up

We are moving the pin locations for winter starting today. Front, middle and back on most greens. The smaller greens will have front and back locations only.

Also, over the next few days the winter tee locations will be set. Please only use the tees which have the markers on them.

Weekly Schedules for the Fall and Winter

Currently our focus over the next few weeks will be leaf clean-up and moving irrigation heads around greens. The size of our seasonal staff began decreasing last month with the next large group leaving this Friday and all will be gone by mid-November.

While I will not be doing weekly schedules until the spring I'll be sure to keep everyone updated. Looking forward to getting a lot done this winter in preparation for the upcoming season.

Weekly Schedule for October 27-November 2, 2014

Weather and unforeseen conditions can/will change the schedule.

-Topdress greens as needed to ensure all aerification holes are filled
-Move irrigation heads around greens
--Mulch, blow and pick up leaves

Fall Aerification Update-10.22.14

We were able to complete aerification on Tuesday except for the topdressing of greens #14-17. Today is too wet to properly topdress so we will wait until Thursday or Friday. Besides topdressing, our main objective will be to clean the piles of fairway cores that are located on the cart paths this week.

Fall Aerification Update-10.21.14

Would like to share some links to previous blog posts regarding our aerification process.

Greens Aerification

Fairway Aerification

Yesterday we had frost until 9:00 am which resulted in a 2.5 hour delay. We were able to finish aerifiying all the greens and cleaned up the majority of the plugs. The majority of the fairways were also aerified and plugs picked up. Today we are applying soil amendments to the greens then topdressing and brushing the sand into the holes. Fairways will be completed by early afternoon. Tee aerification has begun and hope to finish that today as well.

Weekly Schedule for October 20-26, 2014

Weather and unforeseen conditions can/will change the schedule.

-Aerification of all greens, tees and fairways on Monday and Tuesday
-Seeding of secondary rough with hard fescue