Amberwood 6-25-23

 Amberwood 6-25-23       Contractor: Brightview Golf Maintenance, Inc.     Brightview.com

Hello Mitch,

Here is what I saw golfing at Amberwood Sunday 6-25-23.

Survey Results  1 to 10 Scale                                  Rating            Ranking

                                                    Greens                    6.1                    2

                                                    Bunkers                   6.6                    6

                                                    Tee Boxes               5.2                  13

Hole 1

Weeds by the first tee and starter shack.  Lots of goose grass.

You have to wonder why you are seeing these weeds.  We have seen the weeds die when sprayed.

Brightview's Master Production Calendar shows for Fairways that they should have applied 9 treatments of 6 different herbicides within the last 8 weeks.

Maybe Brightview considers this area as Rough.  The Rough should have had 9 treatments of 7 different herbicides within the last 8 weeks according to their Master Production Calendar.

The tee box is in rough shape.  Full of several types of weeds.  And in need of fertilizer.

Brightview should have applied 5 treatments of 3 different herbicides in the last 8 weeds.

Brightview should have applied 2 treatments of fertilizer in the last 6 weeks.

A number of the greens have areas like this.  Seems like it was caused mechanically and looks like it was scalped, but this is just a guess.

Weeds in the green.

Hole 2

Dollar weeds or also called Marsh Pennywort 

Not cutting a fringe.  Also weeds 

Cup cutting remains an issue at this course.

Hole 3

Tee box in rough shape.

This whole area between tee boxes is all sedge, which is a weed.  It does have a nice green color to it.

A number of the bunkers have issues with the surrounding grass being in rough shape.   Brightview's Dr. Todd Bunnell with his PhD in agronomy should be able to come up with an agronomic plan to grow the grass around the bunkers.

A nice patch of weeds in the green.

Hole 4

Pretty bad when you can not grow grass in the collar of the green.  Maybe they should try fertilizer.

Scalped because it was set too high. 

Hole 5

Another rough tee box

Hole 6

This weed is called Saw-tooth Blackberry.  There are some nice thorns on the stems.

This weed is called American Burnweed 

This weed is called Seedbox.

Hole 7

Bunkers need edging to remove the grass runners.

Bunkers are to be groomed after a weather event.  The rain water runs off right through the middle of this bunker.

That is it from Amberwood.