Venting

We will be venting a few greens today with the same tines as last month. The rest will be completed tomorrow. The rain total for Saturday into Sunday was 3" and much cooler temps arriving this week. This provides a perfect opportunity to open the sopping wet greens and bring much cooler air into the root zone after the intense heat last week.
As before, we will be double rolling behind and continuing our normal mowing schedule. This won't affect any play.

The Heat is On!

Just a reminder. As we push on through this oppressive heat it is extremely important that my staff and I can cool off the plants throughout the day. We will be circling around the course during the afternoon heat to mist the greens(syringe), and run short cycles on the fairways and tees. We only need a few minutes to get across a green so bear with us.
This isn't actual watering but cooling. When the humidity rises the plants can't effectively cool off. Just like us, when the hot sticky days of summer arrive we sweat and the humidity traps the sweat raising our temps. (i.e. all the heat warnings on the news and weather stations). We either jump in a pool, run through a hose or get into the air conditioning. The plants are experiencing the same overheating. The plant pulls water from the roots and sends it through the stomates (pores) on the underside of the leaf. This water vapor/droplet is hopefully evaporated(transpiration) to cool the plant down but high humidity negates this process.
That's when we have to step in.
It looks like just a couple more days and the weather breaks.