The Heat Is On

I hope everyone had a great weekend and a very Happy Father's Day. It looks like summer is going to come in like a lion as they say. Man it is going to be extremely warm here this entire week. This is going to be a huge challenge for my staff and I keeping the grass hydrated with this high heat this early in the year. The turfgrass plants are not adapted for the heat yet and have been rather babied along with all the timely rains and cool weather. Their root structures are not where they need to be going into extreme heat due to the above timeliness of rain and cool weather. It is going to be interesting to see how they adapt and get acclimated this early into the season. We where able to get out today and get to mowing the roughs, fairways, greens, and tees mowed. We also applied an organic fertilizer to our greens for fertilization. We are going to be continuing to spray for clover in the roughs and around greens and tees.