BALL MARKS ON GREENS

We have been noticing more unrepaired ball marks than usual.  Below are instructions on how to properly repair a ball mark.  Please repair yours and any others you come across on the green as a ball mark repaired soon after being made recovers much faster than one repaired the next day. 

 

The right way to fix a ball mark

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Step 1:
Use a pronged ball mark
repair tool, knife,
key or tee.

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Step 2:
Insert the repair tool at the
edges of the mark; not the
middle of the depression.

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Step 3:
Bring the edges together
with a gentle twisting motion,
but don't lift the center. Try not to
tear the grass.

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Step 4:
Smooth the surface with
a club or your foot. Repeat
steps until the surface is one
you would want to putt over.

Channel 7 ABC

Below is the link to the interview from Channel 7 News yesterday on water savings.  Hopefully this will be the end to my 10 minutes of fame. 


http://abc7.com/weather/golf-course-takes-steps-to-conserve-water/240906/

LA Daily News

Here is a link the article in the Sunday LA Daily News about water conservation in case you missed it.

 http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20140802/woodland-hills-country-club-beats-par-for-water-conservation

Maintenance Day

Today is a very busy maintenance day on the course.  We are venting or aerifing the greens with 1/4 inch tines.

This allows water and air to get down to the roots, this will help the grass plants to better handle the stresses of our summer weather conditions. 

We are also verticutting and aerifing the fairways.

The verticutting reduces the thatch that builds up in the kikuyu, and will create a tighter and healthier grass plant.  We will verticut the fairways again an about a month. 

The aerifing of the fairways will reduce compaction and allow water to better penetrate the soil, reducing dry spots. 

 

The greens will be finished today, but the fairways will take most of the week to complete.  We will restrict the carts to the path this week to allow the fairways to heal better.  Please bear with us for this busy week as these procedures will improve the health of the golf course and improve playing conditions thoughout the year.

Tee Improvement Project

We have completed the leveling part of the tee leveling project, below are before and after photos of the first tee.  Next, we will begin installing the bronze yardage markers and finish up more concrete block work.

Fore The Golfer: Watering For Healthy Turf

Driving Range Tee

This week we took on the task of leveling and resodding the Driving Range Tee. This is what the tee looked like when we started.

We stripped the sod off on Tuesday, Wednesday we rototilled the tee, and blended in the transitions to the rough better than they were before. On Thursday we brought in an outside contractor to laser level the tee, below is a picture of his equipment in operation.

Today we brought in West Coast Turf to lay big rolls of hybrid bermuda, just like they laid the big rolls of kikuyu in the fairways.

We will reopen the new driving range tee in a couple weeks when the sod roots down and becomes firm.