Building Progress

 

The building in nearing completion.  Insulation will be blown into the attic area this week, then masons will begin to prepare the floor.  Garage doors to be installed and electric to go in last.  We are hoping the building will be done by mid February.

Cold Storage Building

 Our new 3000 sq ft cold storage building located between 1 and 18 has made significant progress since we started a few weeks ago.  On the building side, we just have to add insulation, electric and the doors.  We will then do the concrete floor last, hopefully in January some time if the weather allows.  This building will allow us to store more equipment inside and free up space at our main maintenance facility.

Progress Being Made on 5

 

The work on 5 has been progressing steadily despite some heavy rains to start.  This is a big project which includes rebuilding and shifting all the fairway and greenside bunkers, changing the fairway contours, reshaping parts of the fairway and draining the entire fairway.  The biggest part of the project is happening now with moving a lot of turf, reshaping areas and building new bunkers.  Once this is done, we will add all new drainage on the top portion of the fairway.

The last 80 yards of the hole is a complete rebuild to add more strategy to the hole and to divert water away from the green and bunkers.  We are also rebuilding the alternate tee area on the 6th hole as well.  With continued good weather we should be almost done with the big work in another 10 days.

Drainage and Renovation Underway on #5

 

Work has begun on the 5th hole this past week.  Our goal is to drain the fairway, rebuild the bunkers and tie those drains to our new trunk lines and to change the fairway contour lines.  The biggest problem with #5 is the amount of runoff from the hillside so we must divert water to drain basins to prevent the runoff from entering bunkers and ending up down by the green.  Phase one is to catch the upper portion of the fairway on the left side and phase 2 is to divert the water on the lower portion of the fairway toward the cart path and drainage ditch.  While this is good sized project it will address all our issues on the hole while improving the playability and strategy.

Screening the Maintenance Facility

 

Phase 1 of screening the maintenance facility area is completed and we will finish the remaining screening plants in the spring of 2021.  We will remove the dawn redwoods that run along the new putting course this winter and replace them with green giant aborvitaes.  This will improve the turf on the putting course and actually free up some more space in the maintenance area.

One Step Closer to Our New Storage Building

 

The materials for our new 3000 sq ft cold storage building arrived this morning.  The site work is ready so the next step is to have Morton come and put it up.  We are hoping to have everything done by January.  This will take the burden off of leaving equipment outside in the elements all season long due to our current lack of storage.

Hydraulic Leak

 

Unfortunately we had a hydraulic leak this morning on our practice area.  It basically goes around the perimeter of the practice area and then several passes were made along the fairway area until it was noticed.  While this will look unsightly for a while and we can seed it out, lucky it was not on one of our fairways as we use a fairway mower to mow our range area.  This is one of the downsides of mowing in the dark every morning where things like this do not get noticed right away.