Summer Struggles

I was very pleased with the course conditions for the Juniper, even though we have been going thru one of the hottest two months in history. We have been struggling with the tees this year as had break through from our pre-emergent and resodding some of the bunkers. We are working very hard in trying to clean the tees up and overseed as much as we can. I have talked to other Superintendents in the area as well as in Louisville and we are all dealing with the same issues due to the heat. Everyone has their own struggles with crab grass and yellow nutsedge. I have sprayed the green banks with a herbicide to clean up the nutsedge and it seems to be working great. I went out and did one pass around all the greens 2 weeks ago and did another pass off of the previous one yesterday. We have also done two applications to clean the tees up from nutsedge. The crabgrass has been a different story. It is a weed that just won't go away this year. I sprayed for it once and it did more damage to the tees than I was hoping for. When you have heat like we have, you are playing a fine line between trying to keep the turf alive by watering so much and at the same time trying not to give disease the conditions it needs to surface, like wet wilt and brown patch. We are still fighting the good fight and hopefully fall is just around the corner. Congrats to the winners in the Juniper and we look forward to having you all again next year. We'll see you on the course.