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| Nelson aerifys one fairway. |
As aerification week comes to a close it is in now way hyperbole to call it a success. In spite of repeated rains and temperatures in the nineties, the greens were deep-tined, topdressed, dragged and fertilized. Cores were pulled on every tee, the cores were broken up via drag mats, and the tees were fertilized. The time consuming process of aerifying fairways began yesterday with holes one, two, nine, and the main body of eight. This process will continue throughout the next week and amidst play and only one fairway will be worked on at a time. Should you find your ball surrounded by pulled cores, simply clear enough area around your ball for you to swing and have at it.
The eighteenth fairway and number eight approach fairway were seeded Wednesday and Thursday! I must remind everyone that both of these areas will be closed to carts until further notice. This is being done for the safety of our seedlings; players should also be aware that both of these areas will be irrigated every hour on the hour. Seedlings have very little root structure, and must have near constant access to water to survive. Remember that our irrigation program runs heads in a progression from green to tee. So if you're facing the green, standing over an irrigation head and there's a head on in front of you, you have less than five minutes to decide whether you'd like to stay dry.
See you on the course!
Elliott Dowling
