[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by tmbromley

I've been here for 4 years now and things would be better if the management would aerate the greens on all the courses at the same time and not taking a month or more to do it. We understand but when you spread it out it just seems like it takes forever to get em right! Then just about the time they're perfect in two weeks they start it all over again and we have really nice betmuda greens only about two weeks or so after each aeration all because they won't do them all at the same time. Then after they aerate them the second time for about two weeks we have nice Bermuda greens only to have them seeded with rye and so the best greens are in the winter which is totally different than Bermuda grass. It's pretty rediculous. Overseeing the greens heavily this far north in FL is just plain bad policy. If they overseeded very lightly the greens would come back quickly in the spring but they don't get the spring spurt because it takes so long for the rye to completely die out. Just poor management! Really kind of sad and the golfers pay and never hardly experience really good Bermuda greens. It's done by a management that doesn't care about the golfer but only having green grass so the Villages can sell real estate. Sad indeed! Who wants piece meal aeration for over a month? It's nuts! Same thing every darn year!

I think that the idea of staggering the aerification is two-fold. First of all, it would require an army of workers and equipment to do them all on the same day or even in the same week. Secondly, by staggering the times, golfers always have the option of playing greens that have not been aerified.