COURSE UPDATE

          We've received plenty of rain and wind the last couple of days which has kept us busy trying to keep the greens covered.  The good news is that we have seed germination this morning for the first time since we seeded exactly two weeks ago.  We are leaving the covers on today to help with the germination process.  The covers will be removed tomorrow to allow us to fertilize the greens and better evaluate.

          We have decided at this point to open more holes on the Pines.  Holes 1-5 and #8 will open for play Saturday morning.  Terry will be posting the order in which we will be playing the holes.  We also made the decision early this week to go ahead and pull small aerification plugs while we were closed so we don't have to inconvenience the membership again by aerifying the Old Course on June 2nd, when we were originally scheduled to do so.  We will go ahead and aerify only the Falls greens on June 2nd.

          The Green Committee has decided to move in the right side of #4 Falls green about 10 feet to help keep balls from rolling off the right side of the green.  Rather than just letting the grass grow up we have decided to utilize the section of the green to make repairs to the Old Course Greens and will be sodding the right side of #4 Falls with fairway sod from #2 Falls fairway.  Once we have utilized the sod we need from #2 Falls fairway we will move in the step cut and seed the rough that has been harvested to make repairs to other areas of the course.  This is a process we used during the renovation project.

          Please check the Green Department Blog tomorrow for updated pictures and further updates at:
www.ccscrantongreen.blogspot.com


Thank you,
Gregory Boring