July weather recap

Well the month of August has so far been kind in the weather department. The high temperatures have mellowed out and we are going to take adavantage of a few forecasted cool days. Monday and Tuesday this week we will be spiking and verticutting greens. Tuesday afternoon we will apply a light topdressing and then leach the greens with a heavy irrigation cycle Tuesday night to help push the sand into the turf canopy.
A quick recap of July's weather:

• all 31 days had a high temperature in excess of 90 degrees
• 23 out of the 31 days the temperature exceeded 95 degrees
• at one point in the middle of the month we have 7 days in a row where the temperature exceeded 100 degrees
• the hottest day of the month was the 19th where the mercury hit 108.

Good news is from all the hot weather is the bermuda in the fairways has transitioned nicely and good fairway surface conditions will exist till overseeding.