We are very fortunate here at Lewiston Golf and Country Club to be closed on Monday mornings until 11AM for maintenance. This time is so valuable for us as we prepare the golf course for the week. When staff has the ability to work on the course without any intereptions, they are about 50-60% more productive. More important than ever is right now in the heat of summer, when it is 96-103 degrees F everyday, we need the time to do the more major things than just regular maintenance to the golf course.
A typical Monday morning includes all the regular mowing that we do on a typical day, along with spraying of the golf course to include liquid fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides; also cultural practices like spiking greens, topdressing all areas of the golf course, verticutting, and grooming.
To give you example, this past Monday was the monthy venting of greens with 1/4" solid tines to allow oxygen down into the the root system and a deeper infiltration of water. We first mowed greens, then spiked, then rolled them smooth, and then sprayed a tank mix of fertilizer; re-set the cup and pin, and then opened the green for play. The driving range tee also recieved an overhaul by first being mowed, then topressed, allowed the sand to dry, brushed in the sand, fertilized, irrigated to work in the sand, and then sprayed with a fungicide.
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Mowing greens - performed with a triplex on Monday's to save labor for other tasks,
greens are walk mowed the rest of the week |
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| Spiking greens |
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| The result of spiking/venting greens wth 1/4" solid tines |
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| Rolling greens |
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| Asst Superintendent, Colby, spraying greens |
None of this would be possible if it wasn't for having the course closed til 11AM on Monday's.
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