Going As Planned

We are giving you the Full Monte when it comes to this week Aerification.  We have punched all the greens with 24 holes per square foot.  We used pencil size holes removing a lot of thatch and organic material from the top 1.5 inches of the greens.  I little quick math that is 2.6 million holes in 5 acres!  We are going in today and double verti-cutting sanding and mowing greens and will be open first thing Thursday Morning.  Have a great week.  Kevin

17 Green

Most of us have known someone who have died in a battle fighting for our or someones freedom.  For the last 5 years I have put a flag in the 17th green at what ever golf course I have been working at.  It is to honor a young man that I coached football at Rockbridge County High School years ago.  He left High School and played football for four years at Army.  Once he completed his time at West Point he he completed Ranger School and was quickly shipped off to Afghanistan.  There he was killed on his third day by a roadside IED.  His jersey number for his high school and college years was #17.  That's why the flag stands tall on the 17th green this weekend at RNK.

Don't Forget! May 30-31

We Are Punching Greens!

May 30 and 31

Basic Week Ahead

This week is a basic week for us.  Normal maintenance schedule this week.  Weather is on tap to be beautiful hope you get a chance to get out here and enjoy it!  Kevin

Don't Forget

This Week 5-8-17

We are back at it again this week!  Still spraying native with all intentions of helping speeding up play and keeping the height of the weeds in check.  We are schedules to do the last verti-cut of the spring Tuesday.  We will do our best to keep in front of morning play on the back and fall in behind play in the afternoon on the front. Bunkers will take us a couple days to get back together from last Friday's storm.  Other than that it's the normal week of mowing everything down and working for the weekend.  It's supposed to be a great cool week so hope you get a chance to get out and play golf!

Aerfication Dates:

Brickshire May 22-23

Royal New Kent May 30-31

High Expectations Get Great Results

When you set the expectations for your crew at a high level you get great results.  My crew has been running wide open for the last couple weeks getting the course in the best shape possible.  I have high expectations for myself to do all I can to keep a high standard of golf course conditions at RNK.  Getting my awesome crew to believe in the excellence of execution is starting to pay off big time.  This place is in great shape!   Keep it in the short turf!

This week!
 We did finish the task of Verti-Cutting greens today along with mowing rough, fairways, mulching spreading, spraying tees.

 Verti-Cutting greens is a huge task.  It starts by mowing greens as normal in the morning to help remove the dew and get the greens to dry out quickly.  Then the verti-cut unit goes out on the back greens first to keep in front of play.  The unit makes a mess when removing the thatch, so we bring in a blower to clean off the greens.  Once the thatch is blown off the green we re-mow the greens for a second time that day.  If we can and have enough people we like to roll them smooth as well.  If all works well we finish the back and roll onto the front just about time play slows down for the dayand fall in behind play.

We will continue to keep mowing and mowing along with starting to spray native areas to knock back weeds and briers starting with the most "in play" areas to help speed up the pace of play.

We will also be spraying greens with fungicide at the end of the week!

Hope you get a chance to get out here and enjoy this place soon!  Kevin