Dragging, Scalping, and Spraying

This week we have started seeing a lot of green grass popping on our short cut Bermudagrass. We started our spring cultural practices because of this. We started by dragging our fairways with our steel drag. This busted up any rows of clippings and debris from the rains. We followed this by mowing the grass. We are now spraying our short cut Bermudagrass with a liquid fertilizer. This is all quick release nitrogen and it should really help green us up a little better. 

We are also scalping our rough down. We are mowing it at 1" and we will keep it at 1" going into the season for as long as we can. We are going to be spraying a growth regulator in our rough this summer to help us not get behind on mowing it and also to cut back on any clippings. It will also aide in the ball sitting up on the canopy in the rough. 

We hope you come out and enjoy some of the changes that are taking place on the course. Spring has sprung and it is getting more and more beautiful out here by the day.