Rain gauge had a bad month!

The GRAND total for rain at RNK in the month of September (Drum roll)  1.6 inches!  If you have been to RNK lately you notice the extreme low pond level.  We have gone to greens only at this point to make it through the until we get some kind of hurricane or massive snow melt. If we get a good hard storm, for every inch of rain we get about a foot of our pond filled back up. Cooler night temps are helping reduce water use but not helping on our root development.

We also have started Bush Hogging some of the tee complexes to knock down some of the out of control native areas catching tee shots 10 feet off the tee.

The collars will be finished getting their yearly over seeding,  We are trying to toss a new curve at the collars for next year. we added 20% of the seed is a Low Mow Heat Tolerant Blue Grass.  Seed count wise, the seed is about 50% Rye and 50% Heat Tolerant Blue Grass! I'm excited to see the result of the change!  On the bad side, the collars will be kind of a mess jungle for the next couple weeks.

Work continues on sodding the edges of the bunker on 10 fairway as well when weather allows.  the over all plan for the bunker is to make it a FLAT BOTTOM bunker, except, for the two big faces.  the two bug faces are going to get their slops reduced to be able to maintain them with our bunker rake machine.  Right now our main focus is getting the sod down and rooted before it checks out and head dormant.

I also want to give a shout to Carl.  I have no idea what he goes through on a daily basis, but I know he works hard to get the three superintendents the things we need to be as successful as we can be!

Super busy here as you can tell, Kevin