Our resident bear was active again last night; this time damaging the 14th green. We've recovered 3 broken flagsticks this week alone. That consumed the spare flagsticks we have so we are now having to resort to an old set of flagsticks from a couple years ago.
The bear, in search of food, dug all the dead wood out of the base the American Holly behind the 14th green as well. This is an important tree, in my opinion, and I hope this doesn't speed the decline of the tree that is already stressed. This tree has been in a state of decline for the last 10 years.
The greens are being aerated today with 1/4" hollow tines. Above, you can see the results. The process we are doing to the greens is as follows:
1. Topdress with sand
2. Aerate the green
3. Cleanup the green
4. Roll the green
5. Apply Calcium fertilizer
6. All greens will be irrigated this evening
We are also inner-seeding fairways this morning and following that up with 10 minutes of irrigation to move the seed down into the tiny trenches created by the seeder machine. We are using the Bentgrass variety, 'Crystal Bluelinks' to introduce a newer variety of turf to our fairways. This grass is from the Tee-2-Green Corp and developed by Penn State University.
