With turf roots at their shortest of the entire year, standing on its own, August is always a challenging month. Every year, this is also when we aerify the greens, tees and fairways, which is a massive undertaking from a labor perspective.
There are a few agronomic reasons why it's important to get aerification completed now, but labor is also part of the equation, since we will soon be losing several employees as they return to school.
If that's not enough fun and games, 2022 has an additional wrinkle as our Master Plan work commences on the same day as greens aerification. With supply chain issues, the planning for this year's work began well in advance, and we have had some materials on the ground for several months. But some of the preparation can not be addressed until just before the actual construction begins.
Included in this, is the tracing and marking of existing irrigation lines. As you play the first holes where bunker work will take place (#2, 4, and 5), you may see a good deal of paint and flags. With bunkers being changed, we also went ahead and knocked down the backside of the Fescue on the areas which will be under construction. This allows a cleaner view of the land as well as the buried infrastructure to be avoided, or potentially relocated.
The construction sequence will be to rebuild the remaining bunkers on #2, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 15, address tees on #5 and 7, then finish up at #1 tee and the putting green.
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