Green Speeds and Weather

I discussed in a post on May 23rd titled Green Speeds, how speeds of our greens can change. In the last seven days we have received over 4.25 inches of rain and with the extremely high humidity levels, the water is not moving out of the turf. Today we are not able to mow greens because they are saturated, however we are able to roll them.

My goal is to be extremely aggressive tomorrow through Sunday to push greens speeds back to our goal of 10'. We will be brush and cutting and possibly rolling tomorrow. Saturday we will be double cutting and rolling. We will make a decision as to our maintenance on Sunday based on the speeds we are able to achieve on Saturday. All of the above can change if we get the forecasted rain tomorrow.