Hello! We hope everyone is doing well and staying warm out there! We have had warm days and cold days these past couple of weeks but we are still open and hope everyone can make it out to play the course! If you have been out you might of seen us spraying fairways and tee boxes.  We are spraying a herbicide that will get rid of the unwanted weeds in the fairways and tees. This is the perfect time to spray because the zoysia fairways are dormant. That means it's not actively growing and we can spray it and the plant will not take up the herbicide and die. But the cool season plants/weeds are still actively growing and will take up the herbicide. The rough that is still green and still growing can take the herbicide that we sprayed and die. So we need to be extra careful near the edges of the fairways and close to the greens so we don't get any drift from the wind and accidentally spray the greens. We have to actively watch the weather and make sure we spray when there is little to no wind. If you are spraying at home please make sure you are using proper safety gear and also make sure that you are checking the weather for low winds so you don't have any angry neighbors! Also we put a dye in the tank so we can see where we have been, that is why the fairways have been a bluish green.  

Hunter Hill

Assistant Superintendent

Heart of America Golf Course