Fairway Lines

You may have all noticed a lot of red markings through out the golf course in our fairways. The paint is to help our mowers consistently cut the same edges of our fairways.This will help distinguish the difference between our rough and fairways. We are hoping to see a difference once we start to get some warmer weather and some growth out here on the course.

Club Championship

With our Club Championship starting today, I just wanted to give an overall course update. Over the last couple weeks we have been working on our greens day after day to keep up our green speeds. Yesterday the greens were stimped at 11.4 feet. We have started our summer long topdressing program to give a more consistent and true roll. The greens will be top dressed every 2 weeks. The fairways have responded well with the fertilizer we will begin to apply every other week. The fairways are now being mowed at under 1/2 an inch. We have been able to avoid any scalping in our fairways with gradual lowering of the height of cut. The lower cut should help eradicate some of the cool season grass in our fairways, which will help with the clumpiness. Good luck to all the participants this weekend!

Bunker Project Update

Currently all green side bunkers on the front 9 of the golf course have had sand added. Although it may appear that there is now too much sand in the bunkers now, a couple weeks from now when the sand is more compacted and more worked in, the bunkers will be right where we want them to be. We will continue to work on the green side bunkers on the back 9 at the start of next week. Here are a few pictures of our guys working on # 2 green side bunker. The sand is being piled in one load at a time, then moved around to the necessary spots.