Glen Eagle Maintenance (8/2/24)

 July finished as it started, wet 😂.

It rained 20 of the 31 days for an accumulation of 12.83” which brings our 2024 rain total to 44 inches.

Fun fact, we went the entire month of July without running overnight irrigation.

Despite the wet weather, we the course is looking pretty good and the rain is helping the turf as it continues to recover from the intensive maintenance we completed during our last closure a couple weeks ago.

Today, we installed our new weather station and already it is collecting a lot of useful information.

The weather station uses solar radiation, humidity and wind speed data to calculate ET (Evapotranspiration) rates that will aide in determining irrigation timing and application amounts. Using the data from the weather station we can manage water usage more efficiently with the goal of reducing annual water usage while increasing course playability.

During the last closure we had two very large trees trimmed to provide better sunlight to the turf.

1. Tree across the path from the tees on hole #2…

Before

After

2. Left side of #7…

Before

Almost after

Debris from trimming

I look forward to seeing everyone on the course, and as always, if you have any questions, flag me down or shoot me an email. I always enjoy talking turf!