Recovery and New sand

We seem to have stumbled into some perfect late-spring weather.  The golf course is humming again, and the dry, mild weather has gotten us up and working again. 

As mentioned in previous posts, we had some turf burn out from all the standing water and subsequent heat around the week or so after Memorial Day.  Now that things have calmed down, we have been out trying to get these weak areas to recover on their own as much as possible.  Hopefully, we can get some recovery, but we will definitely be sodding and seeding some areas that took the brunt of the heat and wet.

Also, as we do every spring, we have loaded a handfull of the worst bunkers with some fresh sand.  #14, #8, and the practice bunker have all seen new sand.  Every year we purchase sand to address our worst greenside traps.  The next loads are headed to 8, 11, 15, and 9.  We will continue to spruce traps up to combat the highly contaminated sand that sits in them now. 

Bunker sand piled into #8 'propeller' trap.

All smoothed out and hand raked.

Punching the damaged and weak areas in the fairways will help us break the 'crust' that developed after these areas were innundated with water and then 'cooked' by the high temperatures.