Sabot greens aeration complete, thankful for another dry week
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6d ago
  The guys got started early on Monday with all three of our greens aerators. 1/4" cores were pulled out of the top two inches of our greens profile on all 20 greens before the end of the day. The absence of the dryject combined with smaller holes at a tighter spacing seems to put these greens through less of a shock in the spring. The performance of the surface through the season has improved with this aeration practice and recovery is much quicker than using the dryject and larger holes. We are still able to get about 30 tons of kiln dried sand into the holes on the greens. This ..read more
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We deserved that week of weather! Back to normal next week
Hermitage CC Golf Course Management
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1w ago
  It is easy to overlook work done in the past but after a soaking week of rain last week we had carts off the path on all 36 holes on Tuesday this week. The only way this happens is with diligent drainage and tree work, two tasks that will never end! The Sabot team has starting "relocating" trees in the form of wood chips in the beds around the course.  We dried up enough Tuesday to put the final roll out on the Manakin irrigation project. There will be some tweaking here and there as we start running and checking heads but this project is 99% finished. Joe and the guys go after ..read more
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Is that the sun?
Hermitage CC Golf Course Management
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2w ago
  The last 7 days of weather has been miserable! Over 2.5 inches of rain has kept us saturated all week but the forecast ahead (besides Saturday) looks very promising. There is plenty of bermudagrass greening up out there thanks to the moisture, lets hope the frost takes it easy on these 2024 leaves next week. The wiring on holes 5 through 13 on the Manakin is now complete. Save for a few pipes that didn't duck far enough when the plow went over them and some rolling to be done we are in great shape. We plugged the new wire into our computer and popped on a few heads on for fun. O ..read more
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2.5 weeks until spring, plenty of moisture out there!
Hermitage CC Golf Course Management
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3w ago
  We have now clicked over 14 inches of rain since December 1st and have not had many stretches over 5 days with out a rain drop. Our patience is wearing thin on the pickleball project so we decided to cover the fill area with tarps early in the week. Today (Thursday) we worked all day hauling softer soil up to the dump. This extra 6-8 inches will give us more depth for gravel and enable us to firm this area up enough for asphalt. Geo fabric will be laid down tomorrow and then stone will be compacted back into this cut out area. This should defend against having rain slow us up any more ..read more
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Hopefully the last of the 20 degree nights?
Hermitage CC Golf Course Management
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1M ago
  There was no shortage of freezing temperatures this week. The sun keeps creeping higher and higher but 25 degrees made sure the bermuda could stay dormant. Manakin irrigation moved on to 13 this week. A week without rain meant we could dig up every head on 13 almost in one day. The wire pulling and connection process continues to move along well. The only heads left on this side of the gas line are on 6 fairway now. This coming Monday we will knock out 5 and 13 greens and then work on 6 fairway. If all goes well we may be finished in two weeks time. There are only 100 heads left to di ..read more
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Wet again but irrigation rolls on
Hermitage CC Golf Course Management
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1M ago
  Even after another 1.5" of rain fell this past Sunday, and a miserable day of drizzle Monday, the guys have made it up to the gas line on 5 this week. That is about 100 more holes dug and filled back in leaving less than 150 heads left to dig and wire up over the next few weeks. The natural gas line actually consists of 3 huge pipes carrying gas from West Virginia to who knows where. No electrical lines can run over the gas pipes but we will use an existing conduit pipe to run the new wire through and then connect all the heads on the other side of the line. The wire has weaved throug ..read more
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Making progress in the sunlight
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1M ago
  The lack of rain this week finally allowed us to get back on to the pickleball area and finish up the grading. Freezing temperatures still lock up the soil here and keep it from drying out but we have been able to work it in to shape. The storm that hammered California a few days ago is tracking our way though and while it is only supposed to drop less than an inch of rain we are moving quickly to try and get some gravel down on this exposed soil. Cooler temperatures will be back for the next two weeks so we will back into a waiting pattern for electrical and asphalt work. The paddle ..read more
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Finally into some drier weather
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1M ago
  Not even Arizona could escape winter temperatures, wind and rain last week for our national Golf Course Superintendents Association of America conference. Luckily we had a few nice days and were able to get on a number of spectacular facilities. The Renegade course at Desert Mountain features TWO difference green complexes on every hole. With 7 sets of tees the possibilities are endless. Each complex is extremely well done and makes for a very entertaining yet playable golf course. DM has 7 courses in total for its very active 2150 golfing memberships. Scottsdale National was another ..read more
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The sun and warmth are back but more rain on the way
Hermitage CC Golf Course Management
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2M ago
  The week started off with another drop of cold air, again reaching deep into the teens. Our bentgrass greens have not been this dormant in a number of years. The hardening off this winter is a good thing as the plant can build up stress tolerance mechanisms that it will again call on in the heat of the summer. The profiles finally thawed out Wednesday so after the rain today we'll see if any brown tissue mows off them on Friday. The frozen ground early in the week allowed us to get moving on some more tree removals. As in the past, all of our tree removals are focused on improving sun ..read more
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Here is your one week of winter (hopefully!)
Hermitage CC Golf Course Management
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2M ago
  Two inches of snow materialized quickly Monday night, in front of the first real artic blast of the season. The snow blanket may of helped insulate the bermuda just slightly as some 12 degree air bombed in Wednesday night. Our guys are not used to being cooped up inside but that's what we were relegated to this week. Dunstano and Carlos have also been keeping Carlos' brothers Mario and Fortino plenty busy helping work through preventative maintenance on the equipment fleet. In the snow on Tuesday we ran out and collected all the flagsticks, benches, tee markers and bunker rakes. The b ..read more
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