Update on the greens

Cuscowilla friends

I would just like to take a moment of your time to give you an update on the progress of our new bentgrass 007 and Tyee greens here at Cuscowilla.

We have had a tremendous growth week last week. Optimum growing temperatures for this kind of grass are for temperatures to stay between 62 degrees and 86 degrees. While we only experienced that for two days over the last 2 weeks the grass is able to react very positively in this range. Another upside to growth of this grass is when the diurnal temperature variation (range of high and low) reaches 30 to 35 degrees of separation. We experienced this on a few days too over the last week.

We are continuing to top-dress and in the near future will be spiking the greens too. We will be applying fertilizer again this week, but this time it will be one that has the higher levels of phosphorous added, which will provide energy for growth. I will not include pictures this time in mu update to you, as the greens are green!! The bentgrass has started to spread laterally now, which is what we needed to see happen, so the thinner parts of the greens that were washed away in the early August thunderstorms can start to fill out. We are all very excited at the early success rate to date, and will keep you updated as we keeping moving along.

For those of you around the World, and the Nation that get this email from me, and so are not living here locally full time – the weather pattern for this week in Eatonton is Highs of 93 and lows ranging from 60 tonight (very nice change!) to 68 towards the weekend. Looks like we will not be in our optimal ranges this week, but the cooler nights are going to help.

“Did you know?”…. did you know that we had over 30 cup holes to fill on the greens before we could start the upgrade. Normally, cup holes for the flag and cup are taken from one area on the green and used to move around to another area on the same green. With 18 holes of greens, plus practice areas and chipping greens, this left us with 30+ holes to fill! The materials we removed from the surface and first few complex layers of the greens were used to fill these holes!

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