Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday Bert called me on the radio and requested a cup of coffee because he was about to fall asleep on the tractor. Do you think all that noise would lull you to sleep? Regardless, somebody got him some coffee because I could only imagine what would happen if he did doze off.

Each time we aerify fairways the results improve partly due to the modern technology we're using and partly because of our previous efforts. The ground is getting a little looser and the tines can enter and pull out and only remove the core, not a baseball-sized chunk of earth.

People sometimes get nervous that we're tearing up the course in the middle of the year when it looked fine before we started. Those worries are few and far between now that the finished product is in good shape and back to playing condition the same day we started. The video below was shot on Tuesday and the picture was taken Thursday. Two days after pulling these plugs, you hardly know we did anything.