With less than 2 weeks before opening, we are really starting to dial things in! Bunkers are being prepped for the season. This is quite a job because a lot of sand moved during the winter rains, requiring us to shovel it back where it belongs. In addition to that, you can imagine how compacted the sand is after not being raked for four months.
We are fertilizing the golf course, wall to wall, with a 22-0-7 fertilizer that contains the Crabgrass pre-emergent, Dimension. Today, we finished the front nine and practice facility. Due to scheduling conflicts, we'll be finishing the back nine holes on Thursday.
Finally, Young Tree Service was on site all day grinding the stumps of the five major trees we lost during last week's heavy wind event. We've cleaned the golf course up a number of times this spring due to storms. We have a load of sod coming Thursday, so getting these area prepared to sod over will be something we'll complete tomorrow. After the nice two inches of rain on Monday, the golf course is really greening up!