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Second phase of the scalping - cleanup. This vacuum picks up the leftovers the blowing can't get. http://t.co/zMoUsaLz

@RedstoneSuper Agree. Was really wet there yesterday but t'ment course is looking real nice. Greens rolled true.

I love seeing this site again. Finally back to mowing after weeks of rain and clouds. Hope it continues! http://t.co/hkWQajXW

@SRobertsHouston If only we could get some sunshine to go with that golf and cigar. That would make it better!

@RedstoneSuper sort of chilly but it's still nice to be out. Great cigar day

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Redstone Golf Club Agronomy

A Recollection of the daily happenings and events in the Agronomy department for a PGA Tour Host facility leading up to the Shell Houston Open, including everything that can go right and wrong along the way.

It looks like somebody turned on the water faucet in the sky and hasn't shut it off yet. Hard to believe you would be hearing that after the 2011 drought. We go from the biggest drought event in Texas in 100+ years to an extremely wet winter just like that. You hear about changing weather in Texas all the time, but this is crazy!! I'm not here to complain about the situation, only to shed some light on the challenges it presents to a crew trying to get ready for the SHO...

This past week we had our annual Pre-Tournament PGA Tour Agronomy site visit. They normally come out and tour the entire course looking at all greens, tees, fairways, etc. and make assessments, suggest projects and timetables, and report back to the Tour with the results.

This year's visit was a little less stressful...

The collars on a golf course can be the most travelled or compacted area on a course due to the daily mowing/rolling plus foot traffic. The compaction added to the transition of grasses can cause death in a hurry. So, every year we tend to lay quite a bit of sod in the 3-4 feet just off the green's edge.

What I'm going to discuss here is how we get it smoothed out and perfect for our event every spring.

By the looks of these pictures you would think we were destroying the roughs or a crazy employee got loose with the wrong mower. Your eyes are not deceiving you and there is a purpose behind this madness!

This is a process that we have done the last couple of years (and will do in the coming weeks) to help minimize the damage to the parent bermudagrass underneath the ryegrass that we plant to grow from November - May.

	The question normally gets posed to me this time of year by staff members, members, and anyone curious about our operation why we don't mow greens that often during the winter months. Every day our maintenance department sends out a daily condition report to all staff members letting them know what maintenance practices are going to be done each day and special projects to come that week.
Our observant staff takes notice that over the period of 5-7 days from time to time the report says nothing about mowing greens, only rolling and blowing them

I had the pleasure this week of being 1 of 27 superintendents selected from across the country to attend the Syngenta Business Institute on the campus of Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, NC.
	At Graylyn Conference Center(http://www.graylyn.com), right next to the campus, we came together for 4 days to learn how to be better superintendents in areas unrelated to turfgrass like financial mgmt, negotiations, delegation, motivation, leadership and people mgmt, and understanding generations. It was an awesome experience getting to learn from some of the best professors and leaders in these areas.
It was also great to see some of the leading superintendents in the country, and see how they handle these same situations at their clubs.

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