Today will be a very busy Monday. When we get the course to ourselves, we take full advantage of the opportunity and tear things up. First off, we are removing all of the turf between the putting green and cartpath to be replaced with new sod arriving a little later today. The old sod will be used around the course in lower profile bad spots.

We are also testing out all of our aerifiers to get ready for the next month. The Wiedenmann will be punching the driving range tee, plugs will be broken up by a steel drag mat, and then we will hit it with some fertilizer to jump start the sleepy bermuda.

I have some many updates to post, but so little time to do so. Even now, as I'm writing this, I know my time is better served with a shovel in hand helping the staff around the putting green. Hopefully, I can sit down tonight and make up for lost time reporting some of our recent work and course events.

Here are some of the posts you'll be seeing in the near future:

• The inaugural event of the Northern California PGA Junior Tour hosted the last two days at Stockton Golf and Country Club
• Main line repair on #17
• Brown ring patch (Waitea) on most of our greens with the sprayer out-of-order
• Restroom remodeling in the maintenance shop (sounds exciting doesn't it?)
• Update on Izzo including a vicious dog attack right in my office

So stay tuned for more Stockton Turf News, and grab your clubs and hit the course because spring is officially here!!!