{"id":6033,"date":"2020-05-01T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atalaya-golf.com\/?p=6033"},"modified":"2020-05-12T12:29:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T10:29:02","slug":"spiking-and-topdressing-of-old-course-tess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atalaya-golf.com\/spiking-and-topdressing-of-old-course-tess\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiking and Topdressing of Old Course Tees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Atalaya Golf & Country Club has an ongoing course maintenance programme. During this continued period when both of our championship courses are closed, our grounds staff is spiking and topdressing the tee boxes on the Old Course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Surprisingly, soil compaction is more of a problem on tees than it is on putting greens. The primary reason is that on tees fewer root zones have been modified to prevent the compaction. Another factor is that many tees are too small for the intensity of play they receive which accentuates soil compaction problems even more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tee box size is particularly important on par-3 holes where many deep divots are formed during play and the tee boxes are not large enough to allow adequate rotations of the tee locations. Such rotations facilitate regrowth of the grass before the tee zone is needed to be used again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coring and spiking are the main turf cultivation approaches that we use for the tees. We routinely employ these processes twice a year, once during the summer and again in the autumn. This year we are taking advantage of the time when our courses are closed to core and spike, carrying out this work now, since we have already completed the hollow tining of our greens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The same high quality, silica sand that we used on the greens is being applied as a topdressing and for levelling the tee surfaces. Topdressing of divot damage improves the turf recovery rate and smooths the surface area to allow a level stance for the player. The quantity of topdressing used on tee boxes is in general higher than the quantity typically used on putting greens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n