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 At Baker Hill, we will typically aerify greens twice per season. First in the spring with 1/4" needle tines. This process pulls no soil plugs but leaves a clean 1/4" hole which heals over in about 4 days. A light topdressing and rolling are all that is needed afterwards.The fall coring is a different story. Agronomically the best time to do this is late August, but we hold off until after Labor Day. When using these 1/2" coring tines the process takes substantially longer, so the back nine may be closed during the operation on one day and the front nine on the next. We then verticut the plugs to break up the attached soil then blow off the remaining thatch. The greens are then topdressed heavily to fill in approximately 50% of the holes, brushed, rolled and mowed. Heavy topdressing usually dulls mowers and this keeps our Equipment Supervisor very busy. We do all this and maintain the rest of the course for regular play.  Tees are aerified twice annually as well, but our abundant tee surfaces will help us not to interfere with your game.Fairways aerification and clean-up is much more time consuming so scheduling is difficult. We have decided to contract out our fairway aerification to minimize the disruption of play. 2007 Aerification Dates Septemberv 4th & 5th----Aerification of greens. September 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, & 15th--------Aerification of fairways. |
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To learn more about the benefits of aerification please click here. |
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| Aerification is one of the most important management procedures available to golf courses. Although it may be viewed as a disruption to golfers, the long term gains for the course are worth the short term disorder.
Without aerification the course becomes rough, greens thin out and the quality of play is reduced. |
