On The Course September 29th

Assistant Troy Tschida and his new addition to the family Logan! 6 pounds 14 oz born at 3:49am
Congratulations to Troy and Stef!

 What a great start to the weekend with Troy and his Wife Stef giving birth to their first child. Logan Tschida was born this morning at 3:49am weighing in at 6 pounds 14 ounces. The weather looks to be perfect for the weekend and we will be preparing the course this morning with no frost. We have had some frost over the past couple of days and it will be nice to get our right away to prepare the course for play. Bryxton will be setting pin locations today and the greens will be blown off and rolled. With the colder temperatures we are not seeing very much growth on the greens over the past couple of days. We will be giving them a little bump of fertilizer early next week as we are to have a few more warm nights in the days ahead.

JD has been sending lots of updates from the Ryder Cup and below are a few pictures of the Minnesota Vikes crew that has been on the grounds of Medinah over the past couple of days. The US finished strong yesterday and are leading 5-3 which will make for a very fun day of golf.

The "Vikes" at the Ryder Cup sitting on the interview stand

"The Vikes" with "The Donald" yesterday during the Ryder Cup.

Most of our new equipment has arrived!

On The Course September 27th

I talked with JD this morning as he was watching the Grounds Crew prepare the putting green for the Ryder Cup at Medinah. He sent me several videos of the crew and I posted one here. If you are viewing this on a mobile device the videos sometimes do not show up but if you go to the blog page you can view the videos.

  We have a little frost on the course again this morning and will be delayed in preparing the course. We will be rolling greens later this morning and changing pin locations. The crew is headed out to pull carts and work on the barn area. Jake has finished planting the trees on the North side of the golf course and he will be bringing in a couple for the Club Lawns.

Mr. Diemand sponsored some Wounded Military Veterans out on the course yesterday.

On The Course September 26th

New Spruce Trees being planted behind 11 green

 We have a little frost delay this morning. The crew is working on some frost projects around the course getting equipment cleaned up and cleaning up the barn area. We will be mowing greens this morning after the frost has lifted and will be setting the course for play. Fairways will be mowed and we will be putting some more sand down on #6 fairway.

Jake has been spading in some trees behind #11 over the past couple of days and should have those wrapped up today. We will be also adding several trees to the club lawn early next week. SkyTree will be back out next week to finish up our tree inventory and map. This will be a very valuable tool going into the future to manage our tree plan.

'Patriot' Elm tree behind #11 Green

Congratulations to Bob Davidson on his perfect shot on #4! Wanted to see if he could follow it up on here on #8.