Greens Aerification Schedule

For those of you who caught on to Willy aerifying the greens in front of the MGA Championship Tournament, here's what was up.

 The type of aerification that was completed is simply to break the barrier between the existing sand of twenty two years now and the new sand existing five years now. Where the two sands meet up they have formed a black layer. In turn, this blocks all water and air movement between the drainage lines and the turf.
 What I discovered was the water, whether it came from rain or irrigation was sitting on top of the black layer at three to six inches below the turf. In the warm season months the evaporation is likely enough to keep any water from standing in this area. During the cool season months, the water can only sit and wait for something to happen to dry out and/or drain out. By aerifying at ten inches deep we are able to break the black layering and allow water and air to begin flow from the surface through the seed bed mix and exiting into the drainage. The damage by aerifying with a solid tine is minimal, a heavy duty roller is used to keep the putting surface level and on top of that our staff comes along and rolls the greens several more times. So compare the greens to one week before, I would have to say good call Plowman. I hope you all fell the same, the greens have changed dramatically in one week already. On top of that, the next available date for this type of aerification would have been in July sometime, so do it now or what, we needed to take action now! Thanks for your understanding!

There will be three core removal aerification planned for 2012.

April 23rd-Monday after Member/Member
June 25th-Originally schedule June 18th
August 20th

 One last note, throughout the summer months you will small holes quite often on the putting surface. In 2012 I plan to aerify with a 1/4" solid tine in between each one of our core aerifications. This has no effect on putting the ball to the hole, but at least you can blame me for your miss shot.

 On behalf of the entire golf course maintenance staff we want to say;

"THANK YOU FOR BEING A MEMBER OF WILLOW FORK COUNTRY CLUB"