Welcome to the Hope Valley Turf Blog!!!

The maintenance team would like to welcome everyone to our blog.  This site will be dedicated to providing information on turf management, special golf course projects and other events related to the staff and/or maintenance of the golf course at Hope Valley Country Club.  We welcome all comments and hope you find this site informative.  The first several posts provide photo's of our putting green conversion to Champion bermudagrass this past summer.

The Grow In

Planting Day.

Week 1.

Week 3.

Week 5.

Planting Day

Champion Turf Farms arrived early on July 8th.

The sprigs were spread by hand.

Rolled to provide good surface contact.

Topdressed with sand.

Three inches of rain at lunch and we got to do it again.

Removing the Mat -- Step 3

Removing the existing thatch and plant material.

Removing thatch and plant material.

Still preparing the greens for planting!

Aerifying greens surfaces.

Aggressively verticutting to prepare soil for sprigs.

Ready to plant!