Aeration is Here Once Again

Wow once spring decided it wanted to come it came in a hurry. We have been running around here with our heads cut off this last week. Between the warmer weather and the cleanup from the rains, and then top it off with aeration of our greens and tees we have been extremely busy. We were very lucky yesterday to dodge a huge bullet and miss most of the storms and rain that moved through the area. I know of golf courses just to the North of us a couple of miles that received over 1" of rain out of those storms. Here at Creekmoor we received .10" of rain or less and was able to continue our aeration process. Besides the wet conditions to start the day off yesterday everything went about as good as it could go. We were able to get all the greens completed yesterday and are currently working on our tees today hoping we beat the rain that is suppose to move in later this afternoon. I have been asked how long it will take the greens to be back in good playing shape. My answer is always as long as the weather cooperates they should be close to 100% in about two weeks. The warmer weather really triggered the roughs to grow and they have taken off like gang busters over the last couple of days. The crew is currently mowing the golf course and trying to stay on top of this through the wet season. We are starting to see a little green in our dormant zoysia fairways. I have been getting asked a lot about when carts are going to be let out on the fairways. We are waiting for the zoysia to really start growing and peaking out and then we will release the carts. We are monitoring this everyday and hope to have the carts in the fairways as soon as possible. Once we are finished with aeration we will continue to edge the bunkers, clean up the storm damage from the storm on Friday (limbs on #6 and #3), and will continue our normal maintenance practices.