RAIN DAY PRJECTS

We have been able to take advantage of some rain days. We have edged sprinklers, edged yardage markers, edged bunkers and spruced up a few landscape areas.

We like to find positive projects that can improve the property when we are facing adversity such as daily rain outs.

WET

As of today we have received 12.14" of rain at Staley Farms Golf Club. The average for May is 5.12. Needless to say this has made our lives very challenging in the Maintenance Department.

Our staff has maintained a positive attitude in spite of many days working in the rain and some late nights mowing when the course was dry enough to mow.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation as we attempt to maintain the course to the standards we all expect.

We do our best to be as accommodating as possible with the cart path rule. We attempt to protect the course from traffic when it is too wet. We always have our Members and Guests best interests in mind as we evaluate the cart rule.

It looks like some dry weather is on the way with the cold front that is supposed to arrive this weekend. Let's all hope for some good golf weather in June.

GRUB CONTROL

We applied grub control to the course this week.  We are right on time with the application and it should protect our turf for the 2015 season.  We were rained out this weekend as we planned to treat the last few fairways so we will have to wait a few days to finish the application.

We also applied a fungicide and growth regulator with this application.  We are now in the part of the season that we encounter fungus diseases that damage our turf.  We will make fungicide applications periodically all season now until late September to remedy the disease pressure.  The growth regulator will help us keep up with mowing.  We have a lot of acres to mow and with the rains we have been getting, we get behind quickly.    

TEE LINE

We are always looking for ways to elevate the experience we offer our Members and Guests at Staley Farms Golf Club.

The new tee line will provide a nice alternative to the natural tee line on days that the turf tee is out of service.

You can tee the ball up and hit irons off the artificial surface.

We hope you enjoy the new tee.