Trying to help the greens cover from severe disease scars

Dry spots and low rainfall

We've had only about 5mm of rain in the past 40 days now. Temperatures are up too and the evapotranspiration (ET) rate over 5mm/day.

The course manager has ample water available on site and is irrigating at least 2mm per evening. This equates to approximately 1.2 million litres an application. What's quite impressive is that this volume of water is applied in a window of about 4 hours.

I will get more information about this and create a separate post.

What is important to note is that even though our irrig
ating practices cannot match the ET rate, the course is still looking great!

Topderessing greens

There are different quantities of top dressing you could put on a turf surface depending on what you'd like to achieve and other factors (growth rate and work required post dressing...). Here we rate our dressings as light,medium and heavy (4, 6 or 8 tons per 18 greens).

We aim to top-dress our greens every 2 weeks during the growing season, currently with the main aim of smoothing the playing surface. 

Spray Fairways

Ammonium sulphate and some macro and micronutrients

Spray greens

Primo Maxx and Ryder dye