The Proper Way to Hit Balls on the Range

The picture above sent to me from George Cultraro shows how to properly hit balls on the range to help protect the life of the range tee.  Taking divots in a sporadic fashion wastes usable space and limits recovery time.  Thanks for the picture GC!

And So It Begins...

Putting in a few drain lines on the 17th fairway on the left side and the rough.  Only way to move water out of this location is to use a sump pump since the nearby ditch is not deep enough and we need to get the laterals deep enough to not be effected by aerification and to get some of the ground water that we are fighting.  The 17th, 16th and 5th fairways will need wide spread drainage and a few other holes will need some supplemental. 

Fairy Ring

This is fairy ring, a fungus on our 15th fairway which so happens to be one of our experimental fairways.  The fungus usually shows up as dark green circles and certain types of fairy ring will turn brown and others will remain green.  These were non evident and then immediately turned brown as soon as the rain stopped and hot weather emerged.  The rings are already healing and next year we will know that this fairway will be susceptible to this and we will plan accordingly.