Out With The Old, In With The New(er)

Today we said goodbye to our old cart fleet. We got a fleet of 2013 Club Cars. This is a huge upgrade for us. The suspension on these is a lot better than ours that we just got rid of. This should make for a more enjoyable round of golf. Come on out and take advantage of all of the new happenings at the club. 

Willow Tree Gone

We had to take down the Willow behind 13 green today. It died last year. We have started taking down dead trees that we marked last year. This will be the most noticeable one that we are taking down. We are also limbing up a lot of trees and starting to put out fresh mulch. 

Swampy Conditions

It is still raining. We have gotten in a cycle over the last few weeks where it seems we have rain every few days. The golf course is fully saturated and it is down right flooded. Georgia National usually drains and dries up relatively quickly, but with all of the rain and cold weather, we haven't had a chance to dry up and therefore we have been limited in any maintenance on the course. As soon as it dries up enough, we will be back out there cleaning up and getting the course back in tip top shape. If you do come out in the meantime, PLEASE keep the carts on the paths. 

Stay warm and dry. 

Pre and Post Emergent Spray Kicking In

We started our pre and post emergent spray 10 days ago. We are seeing some results of the glyphosate product that we sprayed. Here is a Poa Annua plant that was not sprayed before the picture was taken. 

Here is another Poa Annua plant that was sprayed 7 days before this picture was taken. Notice the shriveled up leaves and the yellowing of the plant. 

This last picture is a little hard to see, but here is one of our largest patches of Poa Annua on the course. This area is in front of #8 green. You can see the right half of this patch was sprayed 10 days ago and is almost completely yellowed out and dead. The left half was sprayed today. The reason for splitting the patch is because it is right on the edge of our tree line where we had to spray Ronstar instead of Specticle for turf health reasons (see previous blog post). And it is also good to have a check plot to see if your chemicals are actually working. 

We will wrap up our spraying tomorrow. 

Time To Pre Emerge Again

It's that time of year to put out your pre emergent weed control for the summer. Over the last few days, in between all of the wind, we have started spraying the course. There are different chemical choices that you can use. We have decided to use the same chemicals we used last year. We had excellent results last year with our weed control, so we decided not to change anything. 

We are using two different chemicals this year. We are using Ronstar in some of our weaker turf areas and on tee boxes because it is safer on these areas and will allow the turf to fill in throughout the growing months while still providing excellent weed control. 

The other product we are using is Specticle. It is a great pre emerge for all types of weeds. We sprayed it last year at this time and we feel like we got pre emergent weed control all the way through the fall and into the winter. Everywhere we sprayed Specticle, we didn't have a single bit of Poa Annua germinate this fall. This is a great product. 

Another thing we are doing is adding a Glyphosate (active ingredient in Round Up) product in with our chemical. This is going to clean up any weeds that have germinated over the winter. Since it has been so cold, the Bermuda grass is completely dormant and this will not harm it. 

We feel this will provide us with a relatively weed free golf course for the summer. 

New Fountain

On Wednesday we installed our new fountain in the pond on #10. We felt this would have a big impact from the course as well as from the clubhouse. We went with the Otterbine fountain with the Tri-star pattern. We feel it turned out very good. It has an LED light kit, so it is also very nice at night. We hope you enjoy it. 

Winter Has Arrived

So far this winter hasn't been very harsh. Well, that all changed yesterday. We had a low temperature yesterday of 9 degrees. We reached a high of 31 degrees. This morning got down to 14 degrees. This has allowed all of our Bermudagrass to go completely dormant. Now would be a great time to spray roundup on any weeds you have in your Bermudagrass. It will kill the green weeds, but won't harm your lawn. 

Have a good weekend and stay warm. 

Big Changes

As you may have noticed lately, we have a lot of new changes here at the club. ClubCorp has put up lots of new signage and put out lots of information about our new company. If you have any questions or want more info, go to www.clubcorpatlanta.com to see about our new company. We are very excited about all of the new possibilities around the club.