The days seem to be flying by as we are fast approaching our final PGA tournament. The crew is doing an amazing job of continuing to provide excellent conditions on both the Member and Tournament Courses along with all the extra work that must be … Continue reading Getting Closer…
June 22nd – July 12th…
We are definitely in the dog days of summer. Temperatures have been consistently in the upper 90’s with the humidity and dew point at about a thousand percent. The courses however are healthy and looking really good. Build out for the 2019 Houston Open has … Continue reading June 22nd – July 12th…
June 3rd – June 21st…
We have been really busy the past three weeks with aerifications on both courses as well as preparing the Member Course for the Men’s Member/Guest Tournament. To complicate things even more is the fact that we received significant rainfall on each of those weeks. Member … Continue reading June 3rd – June 21st…
Just when the greens got good…
First of all, sorry for not updating the blog for awhile. Will do better going forward. This past month we have see a tremendous amount of rainfall, with just over 8″ one week alone to our current situation were we could actually use an inch. … Continue reading Just when the greens got good…
March 30th – April 19th…
With the exception of this past Thursdays rain event, the weather has really cooperated allowing for some much-needed turf recovery after our harsh fall/winter. This past Thursday we experienced 1.8 inches of rain, this gives us 4.19″ for the month and 13.44″ for the year. … Continue reading March 30th – April 19th…
March 9th – March 29th…
Hard to believe that this would be advance week to the Houston Open with tournament week just days away. Thankfully not the case this year with the horrible weather we have experienced the past 6 months. This is going to be a great year for … Continue reading March 9th – March 29th…
February 23rd – March 8th…
The weather continues to be the story with 1.45″ of rain and only two days of sun since our last blog post. In Fact, since September, we have received 37.48 inches and very little sunshine. This is about 10″ short of our yearly average, and all coming during the fall/winter. For 2019, we have had only 9 days of sun. I was unaware we had to grow Bermuda grass here in the Pacific Northwest.
For over a year I have been wanting to change-up our mowing pattern in regards to our tee complexes. The goal here is to provide the Membership with a clean updated look and better conditioned teeing surfaces. This change in mowing does not affect playability and will provide a look that is aesthetically unique to the Golf Club of Houston.
The scalped areas will go away rather quickly and will soon look just like the fairways. Turf quality will improve on the tee boxes as a result of an increase in cut frequency. Currently we are mowing tees twice a week and this change puts tees and fairways on the same schedule three times a week.
This week we applied another pre-emergent herbicide on greens to both courses. This application should prevent any goosegrass or crabgrass from invading our putting greens.
Detail work continued this week with lake banks being weedeated on both courses. This is the lake bank on #9 tee complex.
All knock-out roses and crape myrtles are being trimmed throughout the property.
This week we pulled soil samples from both courses. This soil test will let use know how we have done since last year in regards to the amount of organic matter in our soil profile. Information gained from this test dictates how we plan our aerifications for the year. This all goes back to percent organic matter and the amount we need to remove per year to provide the members with the best putting greens on a consistent basis. More information regarding this has been covered in past blogs.
Until next time, have a great weekend!
-Agronomy Team
