On The Course September 24th, 2015

We have a dreary start to this Thursday morning and will be working moving some items out of the shop and into a storage bin. The rain is supposed to let up around 7am and then there is a chance of spotty showers the rest of the day. We are planning on mowing and rolling greens later this morning to prepare for the Guest Day this afternoon. This will all be dependent on the weather as there still is some pretty good rain in western Minnesota. We have only received 0.15 inches of rain so far and the course is still fairly dry.

2 Green Complex

On The Course September 23rd

Topdressing fairways has been helping and we are starting to see some depth.

 We mowed and rolled greens this morning and have not seen the rain predicted for today. Sheldon is working on mowing rough and trying to keep up with all the growth we are still getting. We have yet to see any frost this year and it looks like the weather will be warm for the next 7-10 days. The Comfort Stations are taking shape and the contractor is putting the shingles on the roof today. The steel beams for the portico should be onsite on Tuesday and we should see a lot of work done on the Covered Porch area.

The perimeter of the golf course will start taking shape the end of this week and next week as Rachel finishes spreading topsoil on the development and the crew finishes installing water and sewer. We should see water and sewer being installed to the Comfort Stations sometime next week but will not be able to open them until late October.

On Course Restroom starting to take shape on #4

On Course Restroom on #14 Tee

Fernando using the Granden to Scarify greens on the Executive 9

Reynaldo mowing Fairways

On The Course September 16th, 2015

Jim Kopp and Cal Franklin on 18 during The Bad Pants Open!

We are mowing greens this morning and will be rolling later in the day. We have a few truck loads of sand that we will be spreading on fairways today. Kurt is setting the course pin locations today and will be planting some spruce trees.  The carpenters will be working on the comfort stations and should have 4 and 14 framed up. Once they finish the comfort stations they will begin the framing on the Covered Porch. We will be seeing a lot of progress over the next week.

There were some spotting showers rolling through this morning and we could see some later tonight. The weather has been warm and the greens have healed in from aerification very nicely. We should be able to finish topdressing fairways this week and will look at deep tining the fairways the second week of October.

On The Course September 11th, 2015



Blowing aerification plugs off the green



We have most of the course aerified and will be finishing some topdressing today. We are mowing greens this morning and detailing bunker banks. We have three aerifiers solid tining 14, 15, 16 and 18 fairways. The crew worked a couple of long days this week to aerify the golf course. We were slowed down a couple times with some untimely rain but we still managed to get a lot of the process completed. The greens came out of the process very well and are being mowed this morning.

 

I will be doing a project update on the blog very soon. We have a lot going on the next couple weeks and there will be more interesting items to show.

Corey Heasley and Nick Walters put down over 250 tons of sand on Tuesday and Wednesday

The crew did a great job of cleaning up plugs by hand on tees and greens