The weather is gloomy, but aeration will proceed!

To quote Mark Twain, "A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done."

Mother Nature's efforts have caused us to change up our aeration plans a bit, but we are moving along smoothly at this point.  Too bad we weren't scheduled for this crucial cultural practice last week when the weather was ideal!

Anyway, as I said, we are pressing forward with the procedure and are still on track to be completed on Thursday evening and reopening on Friday morning.  The wet weather will make the topdressing and matting portion of the process a bit trying, but I'm confident we will be successful.

Here are a few photos of the tasks currently underway:

topdressing being applied to fairways and rough

solid tine aerating fairways

topdressed and solid tine aerated fairway

#1 fairway and rough being topdressed

#6 green being core aerated

#6 green being core aerated

cores being pushed into rows for harvesting

cores being harvested

#16 green core aerated and harvested (ready for topdressing)

As I am about to post this blog entry, the weather has taken a turn for the worst so we may have take a break and let things soak in a bit before we proceed further.