Spring Aerification

IT IS THAT TIME OF THE YEAR…. AERIFICATION and TOP DRESSING We will begin our aerification process Monday April 8th – Thursday April 11th

front of Clubhouse 10am – 12pm

Thursday April 11th Closed – Driving range will be open 8am – 6pm

Next week we will be taking Tee Times on the phone as usual. Pro shop will start answering

the phone @ 6:45am

It’s a perfect, sunny morning and you’ve just reached the first green in regulation. You feel great and you know you’re within birdie range. Then, you see them, those little holes in the green. Arrggh! They’ve just aerified the course, and it’s going to ruin your round, right?

Well, maybe not. Consider the fact that PGA TOUR legend Tom Watson shot a sizzling record 58 at his then-home course, Kansas City Country Club, just days after the greens had been aerified.

Closing the Course gives our maintenance team the time required to complete the aerification process efficiently. We understand closing the course is not ideal for our customers but our ultimate goal is to provide the best possible playing conditions. Closing the course allows your maintenance crew time to complete the aerification process, and complete a few more projects as we enter into the busy summer season.

We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding.

Consider also that aerification is merely a short-term disruption that has long-term benefits for Golf Courses. When you see them, remember that without those little holes, the greens would eventually die.

Preventative maintenance is an integral part of successful golf course management. Golfers view aerification as an inconvenience that takes the greens out of play for a day, pulling cores from the greens and leaving holes that can affect putting for many days before healing. But a golfer needs to understand how important aerification is to producing healthy turf.

Aerification (also known as aeration) achieves three important objectives. It relieves soil compaction, it provides a method to improve the soil mixture around the highest part of a green’s roots and it reduces or prevents the accumulation of excess thatch.

Like so many things, the quality of a good putting green is more than skin deep. In fact, the condition of a green has a lot to do with what goes on below the surface. In order for grass to grow at 3/16-inch, it must have deep, healthy roots. Good roots demand oxygen. In good soil, they get the oxygen from tiny pockets of air trapped between soil and sand particles.

The bottom line is that aerification is a necessary practice.

We hope to see you at the course and that you take advantage of the beautiful weather we have been having. 

BOOK Your Tee-Time TODAY 646-3219 or visit NMSUgolf.com