Greens Aerification

All greens were aerified and topdressed with sand on Monday August 22nd. There are areas on greens that will need additional sand applied to fill in the holes.
This is usually is a two step process and will take three or four days to complete providing the weather cooperates.

Fairway Aerification

Fairways were aerified on August 22nd using an outside contractor, Andre and Sons from Montrose, Pennsylvania. They arrived with 5 tractors with aerifiers attached. The contractor was able to finish all 18 fairways in a five hour period.
In-house aerification would take one entire day to do just one par four fairway. With the golf schedule, rainy weather and or equipment breakdowns, completing the job is almost impossible using our one fairway aerifier.
This aerification is the first in many years where all fairways were aerified.

Deep Tine Aerification

Aerifying fairways using solid tines, fractures the soil allowing for water and air to infiltrate the soil profile.  Compacted soils play havoc when trying to grow healthy turfgrass.  I've found aerifying in late June, early July the soil is  much harder to penetrate, the sod will lift as the tines are coming out of the ground.  The lifted sod will need rolled down and watered for proper healing. With good weather deeptine fairway aerification takes approximately 1 week to complete.