Our spring greens aerification took place this past week. While neither golfers nor Grounds staff enjoy this process, it does provide much needed, long-term health benefits to the putting greens. These surfaces are treated like elite athletes who are pushed to their limits on a daily basis, and when summertime temperatures hit, they will need every advantage they can get to make it through.
As you can see below, from coring, there is a tremendous amount of material generated.
The pickers and blowers follow behind, removing the plugs. Once cleaned, we apply a heavy layer of sand to the greens, which is broomed into the holes.
The next day brought the team from Dryject, where more sand was incorporated into the greens' soil profile.
As you can see in the picture below, the Dryject process enables us to get sand significantly deeper than we can with a conventional core aerifier.
With plenty of precipitation, there has been no moisture stress on the greens following aerification. Now all we need is some consistently warm temperatures to speed up the healing process.
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