Procore 648

The first piece of our new equipment fleet I am going to profile is the Toro Procore 648. This machine is an aerifier for greens and tees and when it came on the market 5 years ago it revolutionized the way we look at aerifiers. It is faster and punches a cleaner hole the than any of the its competitors or predecessors. More information about the machine and a video can be found on Toro's website:

http://www.toro.com/golf/cultivation/aerator/green/648.html

It just happens we are going to use our new aerifiers at the beginning of next week. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we will be lightly topdressing greens and then using our aerifiers to spike the greens. The spiking allows for better water movement into the soil profile and faciliates gas exchange from the soil to the atmosphere. Once the greens are topdressed and spiked, the sand will be brushed into the canopy with push brooms and then rolled. Once the greens have been rolled the spike holes, which are a 1/4" in diameter, will not be noticeable. The greens will be rolled through the week as the sand settles into the turf canopy.

In order to accomplish this task in a timely manner and with as little disruption as possible there will be now early morning back nine play on Tuesday, August 18th and Wednesday, August 19th.

This morning we performed this process to the chipping green and the back portion of #17. Victor Reyes, Jr. is operating one of our new aerifiers in the photo: