Our summer annual planting beds have all had their flowers planted for the summer.  This is a process that take several days to complete.  There are many annual beds around the clubhouse, two at the entrance, and a few more at the halfway house.  We will be spending our time concentrating on keeping them watered over the next or two until they are well established.  During the summer months, we do make a fertilizer application to them weekly with our sprayer.

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About 5 weeks ago I posted about Tim's contribution to On Course Magazine, the monthly publication of the Midwest Association of Golf Course Superintendents.  His article titled "Shoot The Elephants First" is in the June issue of Golf Course Management, the monthly publication of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.


The entire June issue of Golf Course Management can be seen here.


The article has also made Tim a candidate for the Leo Feser award.  From the GCSAA website:

The Leo Feser Award is presented annually to a GCSAA member superintendent in recognition of the best superintendent-written article in Golf Course Management magazine. This award is based on articles written for issues published in July of the previous year through June of the following year. All member superintendents who have an article printed in the magazine are automatically eligible for this award. The award is presented at the annual Golf Industry Show.

The award honors the late Leo Feser, a pioneer golf course superintendent and a charter member of GCSAA. Feser is credited with the keeping the association's official publication alive during the Great Depression. For three years (1933-36), he wrote, edited, assembled and published each issue of The Greenkeepers' Reportfrom his home in Wayzata, Minn.

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The summer flowers have arrived and most of them have found a place in the beds around the clubhouse and entrance.  This is usually a process that takes a few days to finish.  The flowers that were in place this spring are available for you to take if you choose.  They are underneath the pine trees near the parking lot.

The crew hard at work planting flowers.

Disease symptoms resulting from fungicide pathogens were noticed on Sunday, and so, we have applied our first fungicide application on the course.  The picture on the left is the disease dollar spot and was taken on Sunday in a patch of bentgrass in the rough.  We monitor the course for disease symptoms when weather conditions favor disease, but we also will be on a regular fungicide program through the summer.  We make these applications on the club's closed day, usually Monday. (Tuesday this week because of the holiday)  If you have any questions about what we apply to the course, please contact us.

Here is a picture I capture on Memorial Day morning. I thought it was appropriate.

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