After months of planning and weeks of assembling and preparing equipment, the one thing we can not control does not cooperate, the weather . We were scheduled to begin Sunday at 3:00pm and as the staff started to show up so did the rain. Within 30 minutes it was a steady rain and according to the radar was not going to pass. As of 4:00pm aeration was called off and postponed to the following day. The crew will regroup at 4:00am Monday morning and aeration will begin.
Rain is definitely not what is wanted prior to aeration as greens become wet and saturated, thus cores do not pick up as well and topdressing sand is much more difficult, if not impossible at times to work into the holes. With the intention of completing the process as efficient as possible three aerators will be used. Greens will be cored, picked up and then topdressing will start. The back seven holes will remain closed, as previously planned, until noon and as such we will focus our topdressing efforts on those greens first. Once the back seven are finished we will be completing the remaining greens by going in reverse order starting on hole 11 and finishing on hole one. As indicated in an earlier post we work in reverse order in an effort to minimize interruption to golfers. Again, this is all weather dependent and so far we have not found much fortune in such. None the less, we will try to make this process as quick and painless as possible.
