On The Course November 20th

Fill material we have stockpiled at the barn from the cart path project

 We have begun work on replacing some trees along #2 fairway and creating a mounded area to help screen the golf course. We are going to have a section of fence replaced with new fence and a portion of that will have screening slats installed to help with road noise. The project should really come into shape tomorrow with most of the dirt work being completed. We are planting 17 spruce trees on top of the new mound to replace some of the removed trees.

The fence installers will be coming in the first week of December to finish repairing and replacing the damaged fence. They will also be doing some minor repairs as well as replacing the gate that we have at the entrance to the barn area.

We been able to get some work done on the course with the unseasonable weather we have had over the past couple of days. Troy and Brandon were able to get some more of the native areas mowed and cleaned up. The greens are relatively cold as the Excelsior mats are able to prevent them from warming up during the warmer days. The greens we have looked at over the past couple of days are looking great and we have not seen any excessive growth or snow mold.

Mounding area before any dirt work has been done.

On The Course November 6th

Covering the Championship Course yesterday and today. We were able to get most of the front nine done yesterday and will be working on covering greens later this morning. We have some rain right now and will hold off a little while if the greens are too wet. We should be able to get all of the greens covered by Wednesday but we are expecting heavy frost for Wednesday morning.

On The Course November 3rd

Bryxton helping Jason with our irrigation blowout.

 We have made very good progress on our winter closing procedures. We are going to be covering the Championship Greens starting Monday, November 5th. We have deep tined the Chipping Green and Practice Green #10. These two greens do not have any internal drainage or slit drainage installed in them and therefore need the additional help for surface drainage. The deep tine holes are 3/4" wide and 7" deep. This should give a good avenue for some surface water to get into the root zone.

The irrigation system has been blown out and winterized. The process went really well and we saw no big issues that we will have to deal with next spring. We have a couple of small projects for the pump house buildings late this fall. Fernando has been mowing a couple of the Native areas down with the Weidenmann and we will continue this as the weather allows over the next couple of weeks. We have seen some wildlife activity with several Red Tail Hawks enjoying some hunting over the freshly mowed areas.

Troy and Brandon have gotten most of the greens ready for winter by cutting sod strips out of the water runoff areas and exposing most of the drainage holes on the putting surfaces. They were able to get the Nursery greens covered and all of the mats are staged and ready for Monday. We have a good couple of days next week to the rest of the work on the greens done. The weather looks to get a little warmer for a couple of days before the cold sets in.

Fernando has been mowing some native areas and kicking our a few mice that the Red Tail Hawks have been cleaning up.

The crew has hauled most of the Excelsior Mats out to the course.

We had deep tined the Chipping green and Practice Green #10. Covers have placed on the greens for the winter.