On The Course May 30th

Rubiel and Jose trimming the pond edge on #10

 We have finally hit a pretty good stretch of weather and the crew has been able to get caught up on most of the mowing. Sheldon and Craig were able to get most of the rough on the course cleaned up yesterday. We will be working on getting the rest finished today. We are in the spring/summer time period where the turf has a good flush of growth. The temperatures in the 80's along with all the rain we have been getting sure helps. The crew was able to get all of the trees trimmed the past couple of days as we start to work on some of the detail job tasks.

The willow stumps on 9 have been dug out and will be removed late next week. We brought in a mini excavator to help pull some of the larger surface roots out. We are dry enough on the course to bring in the stump grinder and get the rest of the stumps clean up next week. Some of these will be seeded and a few will be cleaned up with sod. Next week we will be topdressing fairways and approaches. This process will be taking us most of the week and if the weather cooperates should be minimally invasive. The topdressing will help firm up the fairways and help the surface drain a little better.

League play is full speed ahead.

Javier Sanchez pulling ball mark plugs out and filling with sand and seed

On The Course May 20th

Fernando Patino Needle Tining #9 Green

 On Monday we were able to get the front nine greens topdressed and needle tined. After the greens were needle tined they were brushed and rolled to smooth the putting surface. We still need to roll 3, 4 and 6 green on the front side. We were rained out of the rest of the putting surfaces. We are hopeful to finish this task as well as a growing list of others later this week.

We have received a total of 2.00 inches of rain in the past 24 hours. The course was finally drying out before the rain and should take it in fairly well. The crew is out this morning fixing bunkers, changing pin locations and pumping water out of low areas. Kurt Wacker and Rubiel Dorantes were able to get the irrigation leak on #12 fixed before the big rains moved in. We are close to be fully charged up and ready for the summer. We have to replace some internal drives on the irrigation heads and run through the clubhouse irrigation.

A very light coating of topdressing sand was applied to the greens

 We are having a Grounds Committee meeting this afternoon at 2pm. We will be discussing course conditions and upcoming projects. The Grounds Committee has formed a sub committee to look at the Maintenance Facility Renovation and Comfort Stations that will be added to the golf course.

MORE RAIN!!

On The Course May 15th

Pear Tree and Tulips in Bloom

 

It has been a very raining stretch of weather but we were finally able to get out and get some turf mowed. There are still a lot of wet areas but there is some hope in the forecast. The crew was able to get fairways, approaches and bunker banks mowed yesterday. Sheldon and Craig started to work on mowing rough around the greens and tees. They will be skipping some of the wet areas and we will get back to these when the grounds dries.

 

 

Our greens aerification was rained out on Monday and has been rescheduled for May 19th. If the rest of the course remains dry enough we will start on tee and fairway aerification also. We will be scarifying fairways and topdressing them with sand. This will take a few days to complete and we might be making some late evenings or overnight shifts to catch up on this task. Below is a picture of what the needle tine process will look like on the greens. Minimally invasive but will provide some much needed air exchange to the roots of the putting surfaces.

 

 

Fernando needle tining greens in 2013



Tony Duerr mowing approaches yesterday

Corey Heasley working on an irrigation repair on 11 approach