Tis the season

Canyon Crest Maintenance would like to wish all of our members a very Merry Christmas! Thank you for your generosity of cards and gifts. The course will be closed on Christmas and will re open on Saturday. Looks like we have some clear and cold nights coming up. This will most likely lead to some frost.

Rain Rain here to stay?

So far in the past week we have had totals including as of this morning almost 3/4" precipitation. The positive of the rain is the consistency of which all turf around the course receives a uniformed cover of water. The down side is if there is to much at one point we have cart path only, no carts. The turf does not recover well in soft shady areas because of the simple fact that the water has almost no where to go except for evaporation. Most of you know already that evaporation is so low this time of year it could take a few weeks for these areas to handle play and traffic. Looks like there is more rain on its way at the end of the week.

speed/water

Greens are rolling 13.4 and we have not watered in 9 days. We might have them a touch quicker for the xmas bash this Saturday. Watch out......

Blog updates

We will now be offering a similar version of the blog that will be up in the golf shop. Be on the look out as there are some very good topics. Ball marks, frost delays, growth pattern, etc. We also have business cards in the golf shop with the blogs address. Please spread the word around so our membership knows what is going on and why things are the way they are. We should have it posted by the first of this year.

Building the short game bunker. Work in progress......

New short game area

We are very close to opening the new short game area. It is located between #5 and #9. It has three areas to chip from at approach height. Rough, and we will be building a greenside bunker in the few weeks to come. We hope that by the first of the year it will be ready to go. Lastly we slowed down our greens to 13.5. Check out the pics of the new short game area

growing conditions

The fairways are looking a little better. We fertilized last week and sprayed the green turf pigment just yesterday. With the warmer weather the first part of this week we should see much improved conditions. The first part of next week we will be addressing holes #1,2,3,10 with cart path only until further notice. Greens are now rolling at 13.7.

Green Speeds New Tee

The greens speeds are the fastest we have ever recorded. A staggering 15.4. They must slow down, and they will. We will back off to a goal of 13.5 by this weekend. When they get in the upwards of 13+ there are a few greens with very little hole locations or even none at all. Hole #16 with very few spots. Also with the grass not growing almost anywhere it has aloud us to focus on detail work as well as projects. We are currently building a new "optional" teeing area for hole#5 behind the cart path. It should make the hole play about 20-25 yards longer.