Spot Fertilizing

One thing we do a lot of here at Lewiston Country Club is spot treating and spot fertilizing.  We keep records and notes from year to year about diseases and insect activity, and many times through out the season we will apply control products only to those areas that have a history of infestation.  We also take a similar approach in some of our fertilizer applications.  Fertilizing only the fairways, or tees, or areas that show us they need it.  We apply more fertilizer to Par 3 tees to help the excess divots recover faster, we apply more fertilizer to high traffic areas where the turf needs to grow more to recover and there is less thatch because of the extra wear and tear, we also treat fairway and rough areas that may have been under stress last year with more fertilizer in the spring to help them fill-in and recover faster.

Cart traffic from last fall and early winter

Here you can see an image from google earth of areas that were under stress late last year and we go out early in the spring and fertilize just those areas, that gets those areas and early jump start and the golf course more uniform and to increase the playability.  

Stress areas in yellow