This week at Sunset: 12-19-16
Merry Golfing Christmas from The SCC Golf Course Maintenance Staff!


This past week at Sunset was more of the same weather wise that we’ve had lately. Prior to my arrival, this area went 52 days without a drop of rain. Since I’ve been here (Nov. 28th), we have had close to 10” of rain. As I’ve mentioned, we certainly welcomed it, but we are starting to get to a point where we need more sun and less clouds. Last week we received 1.2” of rain and a lot of the ryegrass has started to really grow.


Last week, we took advantage of the warmer weather at the beginning of the week and reseeded the driving range tee to give you all more grass to hit off of. Hopefully, we should see a lot of that seed popping over the next 7-10 days. With all of the rain it has certainly gotten the moisture it needs to start rooting. I topdressed the back of the driving range tee where a lot of the worn out areas are and I will topdress the range again once we get more germination.

On Tuesday, we mowed the fairways ahead of the rain so that when we cut them again this week we will have a nice consistent cut on all of them. I plan to mow them again tomorrow(Tuesday) and we will begin to get on a regular mowing schedule. We will also mow the tees and approaches as well and we will begin to mow those on a regular schedule moving forward. Over the next two weeks we will be reseeding some of our tees and fairways in areas that have a lighter stand of ryegrass.

The greens were mowed last Monday, Thursday, and over the weekend. We rolled them on Friday and we will also be getting into a more frequent mow and roll schedule as we move on. I also applied a fungicide to the greens on Friday because of all the weather that we have had. Whenever there is a lot of cloud cover, rain, and warm temperatures this time of year there is always concern for disease. The main diseases being pythium blight and also pythium root rot. The current weather patterns that we’ve experienced will bring on these diseases. A lot of it has to do with the drainage of the green and so you will notice most of the disease along the edges of the green. Our greens being push-up greens do not percolate as well as a USGA sand-capped green and this is just the time of year where I will be more observant of disease. Another common disease is dollar spot, and so far I haven’t seen any signs of that disease (knock on wood).

On Thursday, we had 108 seniors who played our golf course and it was nice
to have that group out. I received several compliments of the golf course and I look forward to more outings in 2017.

Thanks for following us this week as we strive to get better everyday. As always,  please feel free to reach out with any questions/comments that you may have by using this blog, Facebook page, or emailing me at davisjoey@hotmail.com. Thanks for reading!



See you on the course!

Joey Davis



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