The Process

Here we go as promised, the fairway aerification process in pictures!

Step 1 - Pull the cores, and leave them on the ground to dry.

Step 2 - After a few hours of drying in the sun, the cores are ground up with a flail mower.

Step 3 - Drag the ground up loose soil back into the turf and into the aerification holes.

Step 4 - Blow off the excess soil and left over tufts of grass and thatch.

Step 5 - Mow the fairway with baskets to pick up excess soil and cut off grass that was
tufted up by the drag mats.

The Final Product - From a distance you can barely tell anything happened!

As you can see, it's a lot of work, but the result and the benefits are worth the work.