685 Days Since 30 Degree Weather

The last time the temperature reached above 30 degrees Celsius on the course was September 11th, 2013 or 685 days ago!  That's one year, 10 months, 17 days ago we had this high heat to contend with!

The last three days the temperature has topped the 30 degree mark and the humidity has been extremely high (98%).

It's now been 12 days since we've had rain and the rough on the course is starting to show heat and drought stress.  The main playing areas (greens, tees and fairways) are doing quite well with these conditions due to the hard work from our staff, the bentgrass turf, use of Primo Maxx growth regulator offering stress conditioning, and our intense cultural practice regime.

The traffic areas are showing stress where carts and equipment frequent and cause wear and compaction on the turf.  Try and scatter your cart from other players path in front of you while travelling around the course to help avoid creating wear patterns.  Keep the carts on paths where provided whenever possible, especially on all par 3's.

Please scatter carts to avoid concentrated traffic, especially in rough areas

Golf cart traffic stress on turf during hot, dry conditions

The weather finally broke a bit today with the high going down to only 26 degrees.  Some light shower activity is predicted on the weekend to help give us a break from watering with the hoses.

Disease activity on the turf is quite common once the temperatures and humidity are this high.  Temperatures above 20 degrees at night, favour the developemnet of pythium blight disease on the turf, which can devastate a green quite quickly.  Luckily it has cooled off at night below 20 to greatly reduce the potential from this occurrence from happening.

Pythium blight can spread quite rapidly on greens in extremely hot, humid weather