Staying Ahead of the Rain

All the fairways, approaches and chipping areas are being topdressed today before we get inundated with rain.

First Mowing of the Season

Although they are mostly sand covered, this is our first mowing of the season on the greens.  We are trying to stay ahead of the heavy rain forecasted for the upcoming week.  Most likely our dryject application scheduled for this Friday will be cancelled because after the 2" of rain possible tomorrow, there is another 2-3" predicted for Thursday.

Mowing New Fairway on 16

We were able to get out and mow and blow the new alternate fairway we built last fall on the 16th hole on Thursday.  The grass looks great and all the drains worked great as well considering this was a mucky area before we removed all the trees and constructed the fairway.

Greens Aerification This Past Week

While the weather has been lousy of late, we were able to punch holes again in the greens for the 3rd time this winter.  This application we went with 5/8" solid tines followed by 3/4" deep tine.  The rainy weather hampered our cleanup so we sent the crew out on Thursday to pack blow all the sand into the holes when the weather was nice and dry.  We are dryjecting the greens on Friday April 7th so this is a great head start.

Bunker Maintenance Underway

We began working on bunkers on Friday and will continue for the next 2 weeks.  Included in this is fixing any stakes and liners that have heaved, edging, checking sand depths and adding sand.  This is a time consuming process and will go much quicker once we are fully staffed.

New Mounding Right of #1

The new mounding to the right of number 1 is serving its purpose of screening the unsightly building yet keeping the new vistas we created open.

Tree Moving and New Planting

We took advantage of dry weather before the last snow storm to move the large Plane tree by the 6th green and we also planted a new one behind the 2nd green for safety from the 8th tees.