The Rough Is Rough

The good news......

As detailed in our Spring 2008 Newsletter, our rough needs work and programs are in place to address problems. We applied 28 tons of lime and a spring fertilizer to roughs. Additionally, all bunker and greenside bankings received an additional application with an expensive silicone and micronutrient based fertilizer.

Soil pH levels in the roughs are rising that will allow more efficient uptake of nutrients by turf plants from healthier soils. These programs will be repeated twice per year to continue to thicken rough and to eliminate thin and bare spots.

And now for the bad news.....

This year's cooler temperatures and timely rains have produced a deep and thick rough to many areas of the golf course. Many players have expressed some level of frustration attempting to extricate their Titleists, Callaways and Top Flights during the last few weeks.

I do expect these conditions will ease as the heat of summer arrives during the next few weeks.

Please remember however, that your playing partners and opponents all play the same golf course.....and also remember one of the first rules written about golf, to "play the golf course as you find it." We are mowing as fast as we can!!

Peace!!