Yesterday was my annual USGA visit. Stan Zontek was very happy to see many of the issues we discussed last year were improving, such as the poa annua populations on all playing surfaces. One of the areas we talked about in great detail was the natives areas. Over the years for whatever reason, many areas on the golf course have been let to go "Native." Examples of these areas are the rough between 7 & 8 and the area around the 10 Fazio tee. These areas were never intended to be native areas, they were originally designed and seeded to be primary rough. Now they undoubtably look horrible. He and I, while touring the course, cataloged many of these areas so that I can begin to return these to primary rough.
We will begin mowing these areas down. Once mowed down with a larger brush hog, these areas will be put back into our weekly primary rough mowing schedule. These areas will need herbicide treatments and some seeding before they will look like the rest of our rough.
We discussed several other issues during Stan's visit, green firmness, bunkers, to name a few. Stan is hoping to have his report completed for our BOA meeting on the 24th.
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