Monthly updates

In our greens commitee meeting today we came up with a good idea that will share our cultural practices on a end of the month basis. So in detail the key things being like: how often did we roll? verticut? topdress? spray? etc.? In the month of May our extra than normal cultural practices on our greens were that we rolled 7 times, verticut 11 times, topdressed 2 times, and sprayed a growth regulator 2 times. These numbers will vary from month to month depending on growing conditions, other projects of importance, tournament prep, etc. Last week we started to get a big flush of growth everywhere on the course and hence our greens slowed down. So far this week we have verticut 3 times, rolled 2 times, sprayed a growth regulator, and they have considerably helped make the greens more consistent throughout the day. We have stimped the greens 5 times so far this week. Starting on Tuesday at precisely 1:30 p.m. they stimped at 9.3, on Wednesday at precisely 7:00 a.m. they stimped at 9.6, that same day at precisely 1:30 p.m. they stimped at 9.6 even though we had rolled them after lunch. Thats because of the inconsistent growth of diffrent strands of poa annua grasses that we have in our greens. They were last stimped this morning at 10.1 at precisely 7:00 a.m.. You will notice a diffrence in speed, true roll, and frimness going forward as we attempt to "manipulate" the greens to our liking.