Monday, February 20, 2012

 I would like to introduce everyone to our newest maintenance employee.  His name is Keith Simpson.  Keith will be a vital part of our team.  Keith's previous golf experience includes time at Lindale, six years at Elks Run from 1997 to 2002 and has spent the last six years with me at Pebble Creek.  Keith is one of the hardest workers I have ever worked with and we are happy to have him.  Today Keith spent a portion of the day mowing greens......

Randy spent the day applying our second application of winter fertilizer to greens.  Our goal is to have nutrients available to the plants for utilization currently.  However, this is largely dependent on soil temperatures.  The bottom line is that we will have available nutrients in the soil the minute they can be used.  We believe our pro-active plan will pay off.

We do not feel that there is a need to apply anymore sand to our troubled areas on greens at this point.  These areas are currently full of sand and we will continue to wait for the sand to work further into the grass canopy before applying more.  As seen in the picture below, we have noticed some greening at all the areas where sand was applied.  This is encouraging because we believe that positive things are happening in the soil as mentioned in earlier post.