course update July 2014...

This July has been a great month here at River Oaks.  Golfers have been very complementary on course conditions as they continue to improve daily.

Refreshing bunkers

We are in the process of adding sand to some of our bunkers. They have needed some attention for a long time now.

April 2014

April has arrived and with it our new cart fleet. We decided to go with EZ-GO gas carts this time around.

Bermudagrass is greening up nicely...

 

Laying down the base nutrition....

Finally putting some granular fertilizer out on the greens. Have been waiting for just the perfect temperature day with rain in the forecast.

hopefully the last winter storm for 2014...

       We received  a decent amount of snow and freezing rain hopefully for the last time this year.....

2013 recap....

2013 was a great year for growing grass here at River Oaks Golf Club but was a lackluster year for the golf economy. With 60 plus days lost to insistent rainfall including 4th of July weekend. We experienced a devastating loss of revenue which impacted our turf management practices in the late summer, fall and winter.


 We were able to keep all the nutrient inputs to a minimum without sacrificing course conditions. We choose to use a very cost effective organic fertilizer for our bulk course application. We also were able to limit the wetting agent usage do to the sufficient rain fall we were receiving during the mid summer months.



With the installation of the fans on #7 & #9, the greens were able to have the some of the best turf I have witnessed on those holes in years. We will look at installing fans on #6 green in 2014.

3 weeks after aerification..

 

Since we are only doing one aerification this spring we decided to go a little more aggressive.

We pulled 1/2" cores on 1.5" centers.     

 We removed double the amount of material from the greens.

  We also spread 100# of profile soil conditioner per green to help with water and nutrient retention.

 Greens after topdress applied

 The guys moving the sand into the holes with brooms and blowers

 2nd week after ....

3rd week...