Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Needle Tine Aerification to Champ course greens



Here you can see the Aerifier going across a green on the Champ course.



Here you can see the spacing between the needle tine holes.


Lastly this shows the holes left behind by the needle tines. As you can see the holes are barely visible and once we run the speed roller over them they do not affect putting. The needle tines themselves are the same size as a #2 pencil. this process is critical Oct-May as we do not do any core aerification so this allows us to reduce compaction from all of the rolling and gives a small pocket into the soil profile for oxygen exchange which is critical for turf health.