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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Have you considered how much more equipment and personnel you would need to aerate 34 9's of championship courses all "at the same time"????
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Hey, the Villages contracts this out so get the people in and do it. This is a big project but it could be done, we are not building a piano. This is aeration not constructing a house or a new rec center. It could easily be done over two weeks at most.
The main problem for our greens is the amount of heavy over seeding. Looks great but it robs the Bermuda of the spring growth spurt because it takes rye grass so long to die. It's still growing on some greens that have been aerated a month ago. It's not necessary and this past year we really never had a frost on many of the courses. It should be done if they must very lightly like they do at other championship courses in north Florida like Ponte Vedra for example. But you have to know something about grass to understand this issue. You also have to know something about contracting out the aeration and what it really takes to get it done. This could be done a little easier if the maintenance wasn't always contracted out but that's the way they do it here, doesn't mean it's the best way for us just the least expensive for them.
So if you don't like the greens here and you think they could be better what's the answer? The greens eventually get nice here and the courses that got aerated in early May are in good shap now so that kind of proves my point.
No way to prove the other point which is the issue of heavy overseeding cause they have no idea of changing because they don't care what the golfers think! The want to sell real estate - that's number one and real pretty greens in the winter is the way they feel is their best option for doing that. Courses like Ponte Vedra are all about the golfing experience and so they have to do it right to keep the business - not so in the Villages. Get it...that's why all this yapping about our greens isn't going to get us anywhere. It's been going on ever since I've been here and I don't see any change as ZERO. The only place you might see improvements is in the fairways since they didn't overseed them because of the water restrictions - maybe. If they don't do it again this year with the rain we've had it might really start getting better on the new courses below 466A. Yet to be determined.....the fairways of Tierra and Hacienda are really nice. We shall see. Bout all we can hope for, sad to say.
Any of you guys ever talk to the superintendents? I have...