Greens Aerification

With having the access to rent two Toro Procore 648 aerifiers we have had the ability to just about aerify all of our putting greens. We had the ability to aerify 1 acre of the putting green surfaces in about 2.5 hours. With these new aerifiers we have used, we are able to choose what our hole spacing was going to be. To ensure that we have a healthy putting green surface, the goal is to affect 20% of the putting green surface per year. We used the tightest spacing possible, 1.5" X 2" with a 5/8" diameter tine. We were able to effectively affect 15.34% of the surface area today. There are a lot of holes that need a lot of sand!! The clean up process will continue on tomorrow so we can beat the impending weather that we have coming at us. We fully expect about two weeks to be completely recovered from aerification and having better putting green surfaces then we did this past season.