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This last winter I used the Sunshine Coast Regional District's (SCRD) Online Property Information System (OPIS) to calculate the areas of the greens, tees, fairways and other features of our golf course.  I highly recommend you checking out their site  http://www.scrd.ca/imf/imf.jsp?site=OPIS  as it has a wealth of information on it and is totally free to use.  Although this tool is extremely accurate all of the following numbers are accurate approximations.  As we are in Canada these numbers are in meters and hectares.  If you are old fashioned and use the ridiculous imperial system then you deserve to do the conversions yourself. Look at all those trees to the right of hole 5 at the bottom of the picture! The total area of our golf course property is 42.56 Ha, 12 of which are developed golf course area and 30 of which are undeveloped natural areas.  This means that about 71% of our golf course is natural areas or as I like to call it, "the ...

Stunted turf on the sod farm a month after establishment.  The turf on the Left hasn't been cut in a month and neither has the longer grass in the back. I noticed something kind of neat yesterday while I was cutting some sod from our sod farm. The grass was stunted on the newly grown grass.  This grass originated from the cores that were harvested from our putting greens during our spring aeration.  These grass plants were essentially transplanted from the putting green. Grass that is maintained at a very low cutting height doesn't grow as fast as longer grass.  You can really see this effect this time of year as the rough grows 4-6 inches in length per week where the putting greens might grow a quarter inch.  Imagine if the putting greens grew that fast!!!  The greens would STIMP at 9 in the morning and my lunch time they'd be at 2! Another very interesting thing about this picture is the fact that the newly grown turf hasn't produced any seed head.  ...

Ever wonder what we do with all those cores that we pull out of the greens each spring and fall during aeration?  We use them to grow sod.  These cores each contain grass plants, Poa annua grass plants to be exact.  Poa annua seed cannot be purchased, so the only way for us to grow the Poa in a controlled manner is to use the cores.  The picture to the left shows our sod farm on the right side of hole 9.  The area on the right was spread 2 weeks ago and is already starting to grow!  The area on the left was spread today. In a year this sod will be ready to go.  Sod is a great way to establish turf on the golf course as it is much faster than conventional seeding and reduces the disruptions to play. Each year we should be able to grow about 600 m2  of sod at no cost.