On The Course July 13th, 2015

A few puddles in the rough on #7 fairway

 We are mowing tees and cleaning up some debris from the storm last night. We received 1.7 inches of rain last night and the course is pretty wet. We will be cart path only today for our outside event. We have a PGA Junior event on the Executive Course this morning. The crew will be mowing greens later this morning and will finish raking bunkers. Corey is going to be running some trash pumps moving water out of some low areas before the temperatures get too hot this afternoon.

Pond between 7 and 2 higher than normal but the transfer pump will bring it back down later this morning.

On The Course July 7th, 2015

Pond on #7 is higher than normal but it is draining

 We are mowing greens this morning and will be rolling them later today. We received 2.5" of rain yesterday morning and the course is pretty saturated. The greens have drained fairly well but we still have some standing water in some rough areas. We will be cart path only this morning and will look at going off the path later today. The pond on 7 Fairway is pretty full this morning but is starting to drain down. The development has a large water pump moving water from the outlet point to the culvert that heads west of the golf course. As the pond level drops the low areas on 6 and 5 will drain down also.

Sheldon is mowing rough today and will try to get as much of the dry areas done today. Fairways and tees are being mowed today. The crew will be filling range tee divots on part of the range tee this morning. The bunkers have washed out a little and they are still drying out. The crew will be working on raking them and fixing the edges of the bunkers later today.

Sunny cool day today!

On The Course July 2nd, 2015

We are adding some fill material to #8 on the Executive Course

 We are mowing bunker banks this morning and the greens will be rolled later this morning after the dew has had a chance to burn off. Fairways and tees are being mowed today. Corey and Kurt are working on spot watering the fine turf areas of the course and Nick will be changing pin locations. Range tee is set up on the turf for today as we took a break off the turf yesterday and utilized the hitting mats. We will be using the mats on occasion the rest of the summer to give the turf tee a little break and to aide in recovery of the turf.

We are looking to have some perfect weather coming up this weekend for the 4th of July. Fireworks are scheduled for Saturday night at the club and we have a couple member events this weekend. We have been working on a couple areas of the Executive Course and will be working on finishing those projects next week. We are creating a small berm area between the golf course and the development to the south. This area includes a fairway expansion on #6 as well as a new tee. We need some fill material for the New Maintenance Facility and we were able to negotiate moving some material near #8 Tee on the Executive Course. With the new building we are going to have to relocate #8 tee later this fall and we had an opportunity to get some free material to complete this project. This area will be finish graded next week and reseeded and will have a minimal impact on the play of the executive course. We have temporarily closed 6, 7, and 8 on the Executive Course while the crew is working on moving material. We will have those holes open again for the weekend.