Latest updates for Sand Creek Country Club Grounds and Greens
We treated fairways with wetting agent and fertilizer on Thursday and Friday. I will follow up with a better explanation later, but here's the cliffs notes: our fairways are heavy clay and need help accepting the water we give them. One product helps with this and the other we put down helps to hold some of that water in rootzone. After it is sprayed, we wash it off the grass blade to get the process started.
Today will be the 13th day of 90+ temps at Sand Creek for 2012. We had a issue with our irrigation pumps late last week that led to some very dry conditions. Some fairways had tire "burn" marks during that period. We have roped off those spots on Creek 9, Lake 1,7,9 to deter traffic so they can recover. Please help your course by avoiding these areas when possible. Overall the course is holding up very well. Our rough could use some rain and the lakes wouldn't mind a refill also
I've had alot of questions about what we have done to make the ball sit better on our fairways. We used vertical knives attached to a fairway mower and ripped out long, runner grass plants and stand remaining grass up to get a cleaner cut. We had to abandon this due to early season heat but will resume in the fall.
