Cinnabar Hills has once again been voted "Best of Silicon Valley" for 2009. This marks the eighth time that Cinnabar has received this award. If you haven't had the opportunity to come to Cinnabar lately, stop on by and see what all the talk is about!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Best of the Silicon Valley
Cinnabar Hills has once again been voted "Best of Silicon Valley" for 2009. This marks the eighth time that Cinnabar has received this award. If you haven't had the opportunity to come to Cinnabar lately, stop on by and see what all the talk is about!
Mercury rising
I wish I was talking about the Bruce Willis movie, but instead the temperatures. We had one of our hottest weekends this year topping out at 99.8 on Saturday and 101.50 on Sunday. The weekend crew did a great job with watering and the course held up well.
You may notice a handful of wet spots close to the drains throughout the course and you may wonder why that is when it is so hot. When it gets that hot, particularly on a weekend when it is half crew for four hours, we'll over compensate with the nightly irrigation. Really not worth taking the chance of massive turf dessication.
You may notice a handful of wet spots close to the drains throughout the course and you may wonder why that is when it is so hot. When it gets that hot, particularly on a weekend when it is half crew for four hours, we'll over compensate with the nightly irrigation. Really not worth taking the chance of massive turf dessication.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Who pissed off the superintendent?
The title phrase is a comment I'll here a lot when there are seemingly difficult cup locations. With the increased speeds that we are experiencing now in the middle of summer, I have retrained the crew on where we place the cup.
We currently have a grid system that works in conjunction with our GPS system, but within that grid, the crew has free range of where to put the cup. What we have trained the crew to do is to drop a ball from waist height at the area they have chosen. If the ball rolls more than 3ft away from the location, the location is unfair. This training technique along with the fact that all of our cup cutters play golf should make for good cup locations. Now all you have to do is sink the putt!
We currently have a grid system that works in conjunction with our GPS system, but within that grid, the crew has free range of where to put the cup. What we have trained the crew to do is to drop a ball from waist height at the area they have chosen. If the ball rolls more than 3ft away from the location, the location is unfair. This training technique along with the fact that all of our cup cutters play golf should make for good cup locations. Now all you have to do is sink the putt!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Hole by Hole
This week at Cinnabar we performed a solid tine aeration on the greens. A solid tine aeration produces a hole that is a hair over an 1/8" diameter by 2.5" deep on 1" centers. With a solid tine aeration, we improve air and gas exchange within the root zone of the greens and also alleviate some compaction. The results are almost like a fertilizer application without the fertilizer!We also aerate to help cure the fairy ring disease we have on the greens. Fairy ring are the green circles you'll see on many of the greens right now. The disease starts in the thatch layer below the surface of the grass and to cure it, the pesticide must get to the thatch. Providing a gateway to the thatch via the aeration really provides optimum control of fairy ring.
Below are pictures of the results. The picture on the left shows a green the day of and the picture on the right shows the day after. As shown, the disruption is minimal yet the results are tremendous!
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Hand Watering
The question was asked recently, "we notice a lot of the crew hand watering fairways. Why can't you just turn up the time on the sprinklers?". This was a great question and I thought I would address it.
If we were to turn up the time on the sprinklers to address a dry spot, we would end up with wet spots in other areas. The irrigation we put out at night time addresses the majority condition of the particular area rather than the dry spots which may only be 5% of an area.
By going through and hand watering the localized dry spots, we can keep the fairways firm and fast which is a desirable condition from our management team to our regulars. It also helps conserve on water which we all know how valuable of a resource water is.
If we were to turn up the time on the sprinklers to address a dry spot, we would end up with wet spots in other areas. The irrigation we put out at night time addresses the majority condition of the particular area rather than the dry spots which may only be 5% of an area.
By going through and hand watering the localized dry spots, we can keep the fairways firm and fast which is a desirable condition from our management team to our regulars. It also helps conserve on water which we all know how valuable of a resource water is.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Blog site officially started
The management team at Cinnabar Hills Golf Club is always looking for new ways to communicate with our clientele and with that said, the maintenance department has undergone their first blog site.
Intentions are to provide daily to weekly updates of events that are occuring on the golf course that many times go unnoticed (which is a fortunate thing).
Intentions are to provide daily to weekly updates of events that are occuring on the golf course that many times go unnoticed (which is a fortunate thing).
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