As a casual player, I had no idea the process is so labor intensive. Enlightened.

Awesome video, great information to share for us lawn nuts!

As i pro-am golfer and a Chicano thank you to both the boss and the labor, for pouring so much of themselves into the course....pinchi Raza Chingon!

The dog is the best part of the video !!

I’m doing this tommorow at my course, thanks for the info

Thanks for showing. Good instructional video!!

There is much more work behind golf courses than I first thought.

These look incredible even pre-roller. No big hops or direction changes in the ball you showed. I would definitely play this course after punching, you guys are great greens keepers.

I use to do this type work, very fun working on a golf course, plus you get to golf for free but the one thing I don't miss is arefication of the fairways, you had to walk up and down the fairways all day everyday for 2 week's until all 18 wholes we're done. You also had to use a push broom to sweep the plugs into piles, then pick up all the plugs by hand and load em into the golf carts, it was a long and exhausting process, I was happy they only did it every 2 years lol.

Great tip!! Im doing that to my backyard!!!💯💯⛳⛳👊🏿👊🏿

Cool video. Keep posting more. I've always liked this kind of stuff. It's getting close to punch time down here in FL.

We were having the rut problem as well. What we tried is top dressing first then aerifing. Then we drag the sand with a drag mat behind a golf cart then roll. It came out nicely.

This video brings back so many fun memories of working on a golf course!!

great video. Enjoyed watching.

Back in the old days of the 70's-80's we would top dress then water in and touch up any missed or low spots, then we would put on an old set of reels or use another old machine and cut the greens to even them out then over the next few days make touch up adjustments. Then just to punish the old men crybabies i'd let the greens grow long for a couple days between cuts to aggravate them.....lol. I Always told them it was part of the "Recovery process".

Those greens look mint. !

Its always best to aerate at different depths, vertidrain is great for going really deep, 10 inches or so and great for compaction or black layer

thanks for giving those hard working guys a job

have you ever though about using a sweepn fill brush does a great job without injuring the plant and gets the sand down fast

It's nice that implement also collects the cores.

Very helpful video!

Thanks for posting. I have been wondering whether to plug or spike new greens. I'm going to spike after watching the vid. But I don't understand why you wouldn't drag mat a criss cross (one pass each way). The drag mat I use is a driving range mat turned upside down with a 2x6 on the leading edge. I have a 50" and an 8'. The greensmower pulls the 50" no problem. You don't need to lift or move it just turn like the greensmower on apron edges. It catches any large sand pile and moves it. I pull it behind a greensmower with a welded on hitch. It would be less damaging and go a lot quicker for you. For 27 holes, you'll still need the crew of brooms to keep the greens from flattening out, but they are going to be more effective and a lot quicker, too. And you'll know in a hurry if you are short on sand. Anyhow, thanks, again. Hope I helped-the drag mat suggestions are good ones.

Im also a superintendent, we have A4 bentgrass greens but the roots reach 10 to 12 inches from the maintenance practices we do but its also a private course so far less rounds being played

Good job man!

That is awesome tips about gold course

I put green grass plugs on the lawn once. I done with a metal hollow pole and watered the plugs everyday for about a month. I they didn't grow and the other grass covered the grass plugs up. Years later finally it they have grown and speared all over that small patch of lawn. Next time when I get some more of those golf course grass plugs I put them on some of the bare spots on lawn to get full grass coverage through out the entire lawn.

thanks for sharing, nice vid

always wondered how you guys did that...Now I know.

I recommend you look into a product called the shindaiwa power broom for faster brooming of the sand into the holes.

this guy has the greatest job in the world. seriously

Nice job....

If you fill the holes after each pass it helps keep the tire ruts way down.

Nice video very educational

Where are you located? Couple of thoughts: A top course near me aerates half the green, then waits 2 weeks for it to heal, then does the other half, and places the pin in the good side, so at least you have a decent surface on short putts. This is a HUGE selling point for me and my guys., Two, I realize this video is 6 years old now, but I almost never see hole plugs of that size anymore. Most around here are the size of a pencil, which hardly affects the ball. These 1/2" holes are pure hell! Three, not sure where you're located, but here in MI I find most courses aerate far too late in the season, and the holes don't heal until the following MAY. So they punch them in Mid october, well shit, the snow might be flying in a month around here. My course does them day after labor day and they're good in about 10 days.

how soon in the season can you plug the green,i made a green at my house and have been stumbiling along and I need some help.tks neil. I live in montreal Canada if this helps lol

your greens are huge! god if we had to shovel plugs from aerating on those we would be exhausted.

I played at courses where they did this and it's like playing golf on beach sand. They don't sweep the greens nowhere near as good as you guy do

Anyone that thinks talking care of a golf course is the greatest job in the world should try it. Most people don't last it is physically and mentally demanding. Countless things can and will happen that can't b planned for and ur a prisoner t the conditions, I know I've been doing it for over thirty years. Shoulda stayed in school. Oh and u have t deal with people that think it just about cutting grass.

haha you guys are rockin adele and pushin sand, good deal.

I’ve always wondered what those holes were for

I am sorry if you have answered this before but what grass species is used on golf courses?

Can you use the sand from the beach? Will the salt effect the green?

great job...must be nice to have such a large crew and more than that, your budget is one to be envied for sure. Just wondering, what course is this?

Some supers dont like to use drag mats because its more tracks and beats up the greens even more. Especially when the they use hollow tines and make cores

P.s. The Green looked beautiful upon completion! 💯💯

Is this using SOLID tines or something ?......How come we don't see any CORES ??? But hey - Is sure lookin' good though....Thanks

So on a sand based green, how deep is the soil until it gets to sand?

As a Golfer Thank You in advance Regards to Ralphie 😉

explain how you aerate with zero plugs ??? if the aerator is making a hole to fill with sand, then the plug has to pop out of the tine to make room for next plug and hole . been working golf course for 25 years .... never seen aerated greens without a ton of plugs to pick up and remove ????

Which fertilizer do you use? Numbers please!

seems like the sand when wet will be worse than just leaving the whole open. I thought the whole purpose was to aerate the green. Am I missing something? Do you guys punch the green and fill the holes with sand the same day? seems like it doesn't give much time for O2 to get in to the roots.

Putting on a freshly plugged green is like being in hell

We just call it aerating here in southeast Michigan Same thing

It PMO when our golf club Micro Perfs our greens at the beginning of the season when the greens are in great shape. Why don't they wait until the greens are a bit stressed a month or so later?

The local courses that i go to does not seem to broom the sand nicely like how its done in this video. When they do it, there's tons of sand on the green

So the holes filled with sand then explain how grass regrows in those sand filled holes

how come you don't use a mat? drag the mat around on your golf cart works like a charm, must faster one person

"Makes for a long day pushing all that sand"......for the landscaper doing the actual physical work!

We did that on a fotbollarena in sweden in my youth on a tusday on friday we were supost to meet another country in a fotbollmatch in the arena what nobody told us was that 5 cm (2 inch) under the grass there was antifreeslines 35 procent of the grass died .

How do you feel about rolling and it's damage done to the greens?

Neat!

I want to do my own small putting green in my backyard what type of grass is good to use that can withstand hot and cold dry and humid weather and can be cut to putting greens short length.

fall asleep to this

Why don't you put the sand down first so you don't close up some of the holes running over them with the sander?

How do you like the turf co top dresser

It annoys me that they're not pulling out the soil plugs.

What type of sand do you use? Thx

Why do you do this? How often do you do this?

Nice equipment, our stuff is 25-30 years old.

Where do the plugs go? The machine used on my course leaves the plugs all over the greens with have to be removed with a shovel (before top dressing)

he put down 25 tons in 1 day, with a crew, I can do 12 on my own in one day lol I can only imagine getting that sand moved is where most of the time is at.

why are you not using a a dragged broom to fill the holes it is a lot faster

Ralph is cool

So why don't you guys use a drag mat? We use a brush. It takes about 4 hours or so to aerate, top dress, and level. Next morning we mow then roll.

why dont you drag mat it?

I feel like 99% of the greens I putt on are like this...

Where are the plugs?

whats the machine called??

Why not drive a lawn sweeper instead of manually doing that for the sand?

Hate playing on greens like this tho, but nice video!

I hate doing this but someones gotta do it

Ralphie? Every golf course dog I've ever seen was named 9-iron.

how did I end up here?

Why not take plugs out?

bloody hell!!

What type of sand do you use?

Funny to see so many comments on what you're doing wrong. Aerifying with no cores and pulling cores have different purposes...

All those workers 😦

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Looks like a relative of Jason Dufner!

Who else thought the first scene in the buggy looked green-screened?

at work we have it even worse. We we have to walk with that machine to pull the plugs up, then we push the plugs with a shovel, and the we shovel the plugs up into a workman.

Why don’t golf courses lower their green fees for greens in that condition? Just asking.

Top comment by dirtbikefreak116 : "No plugs with that aerator ?".....Hey that's right. How come ? Me tho I liked how it was rolled after punching. Plus also the broom technique - Immediately playable

1:40 Welcome to the gates of Hell

You need a drag element. Seriously, i'm counting 10 guys with brushes...

It has to be done.

if you can one putt outside 4 feet on a freshly punched green you deserve a tour card

From the comments it sounds as if the Agronomists vs the GC Superintendent. Sort of like Monday morning quarterbacks

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