Am I seeing spots?

 

The quick answer to the title of this post, yes. Today we painted these red dots around all the greens. The reason for these dots are for a visual aid while mowing. Over time, the width of the collars can get inconsistent. The dots let who's mowing greens know that they are keeping the proper width. Over time the paint will go away.

 

 

 

The dots also served another purpose on the new greens expansions. Today we were able to get a dry mowing of the new greens sod. Since all the sod was the same, the paint allows us to differentiate what will be collar or approach and what will be putting surface. The picture above is from #8. In the picture, going from right to left, you can see the existing green, then the new expansion, next the new collar and fairway approach. While the green expansion is not all the way down to the same height of the old green, we are working that way.

Just as a reminder, we are aerifying  next Monday and Tuesday, April 14 and 15. We are using the smaller tines like in the past. With any luck and cooperation from Mother Nature, we should be healed in 10 to 14 days.