Sunset Country Club

This week at Sunset: 8-14-2017 First, I’d like to wish all the parents a happy parents day as the first day of school in Colquitt County was today! My wife, Shannon, began her first day of teaching at Cox Elementary and so I'd like to wish all the teachers, parents, and kids a successful school year! The rain has continued to be off and on. We received about .75” last night and another .30” today is expected. Looks like the trend will continue most of this week with it tapering off in time for the weekend. We’ve welcomed the rain when it comes to healing our greens from the aerification and that’s been the biggest benefit. On the flip side, the rain has caused our rough to really grow at a rapid pace. All in all, the late afternoon and overnight showers that we have been receiving has kept the moisture where we want it on the greens and fairways. This summer has been a wet one and it’s looking like that will continue as we get closer to the fall season.

This week at Sunset: 8-7-2017 Well, it’s been a busy three weeks since my last update. In that time we had a successful Ramsey Pidcock, aerified our greens, and had close to 4” of rain. There was a cold front that brought in cooler overnight temperatures (low of 63 degrees on 8/1) and a few days of some soaking rain.  The rain was certainly welcomed with beating in the sand on our greens and also with some of the irrigation issues that we’ve been having. Speaking of irrigation, the new pump has been giving us issues with keeping a prime. So, Randy Knight and his guys addressed that issue and we are now able to prime the pump more efficiently. We are waiting on a part to be delivered so that it can be installed on the backup pump and once that is installed the pump should be near completion. We have begun to notice some leaks occur and blowouts on some of our old heads and pipes. That’s the unfortunate drawback when upgrading a pump. The pipes in the g