We've had some cool mornings lately, but this one really feels like fall, there is a steady breeze out of the north, and the guys on the crew donned gloves and sweatshirts. Today was also the first day in months that I grabbed pants out of the closet instead of shorts, and I was very glad I did.
As usual, with fall comes aerification, tomorrow we will begin process of aerfiying the tees, fairways, and collars. The weather that we have could not be any better for it. The rain that we got over the weekend has the soil nice and moist, but not saturated, and the sun and 70 degree temperatures will get the plugs to dry without burning up the turf. Perfect. Since the weather appears that it's going to cooperate, all that we have to have now is cooperation from our aging equipment. If all goes well tomorrow, we will work from before dawn until dark to get the front nine and hopefully a little more completed. Wednesday, the back nine will be closed to golf until we are finished with our work, which hopefully will be done sometime late afternoon, and Thursday golf will be back to normal. Of course, this is all a big if. Fingers crossed that everything goes well. We did some test runs on the nursery to make sure everything was working properly and it is for now, but the equipment really takes some abuse during this process and anything can happen when a machine is punching holes in the ground for 12 hours straight.
Remember that the greens will not be aerified this week. We will be aerifying them on September 26th so get out and enjoy the best golfing weather of the year.
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