On The Course October 31st

Range tee has been uncovered and deep tined

We are winding the season down and will be closed after this weekend. We are working on getting the golf course ready for winter. We started pulling golf course accessories and will start our snow mold preventative applications on fairways today. The fairways will be blown off to remove any debris and then sprayed. Please keep your cart on the path as much as possible today and through the weekend. We will be spraying greens and tees tomorrow and should be ready to get the greens covers put down early next week. The Frankenstorm has backed up our weather patter and the forecast temperatures continue to drop. We will be ready to cover greens starting Friday if necessary.

Brandon has been running the deep tine machine a lot over the past week and has most of the fine turf areas completed. The range targets and a couple of the practice greens are all that are left. If time permits we will be deep tining a couple areas of the Executive Course greens. Sheldon will be out later this morning with the aerovator working on the range floor. Jason has been mapping irrigation heads over the past couple of days so we are able to work on our irrigation map this winter and make sure all of our data is correct in the irrigation computer. Our compressor rental should be here later today and we will start blowing the irrigation system out as soon as it arrives. We could be running some more stations later this morning before we blow the system out.

Brandon has deep tine all of the tees

On The Course October 29th

We will be working on drainage holes again this week.

 We have been watching the forecast very closely over the weekend and right now we should have a window of weather to cover greens November 5, 6 and 7th. We will be getting everything ready this week for closing down. We have to pull all golf course accessories, spray snow mold protection, deep tine tees, drill more drainage holes, aerify range floor and a long list of other tasks. If the weather forecast changes we will be ready to cover greens Thursday and Friday of this week.

It typically will take us 3 days to completely cover greens and get them stapled down correctly. We will be spraying our snow mold protection Wednesday and Thursday of this week. We will be blowing out the irrigation system starting Wednesday afternoon through Friday. If we still have a 3 day window to cover greens November 5, 6 and 7th we will keep all of the Championship course open through this next weekend. If our window of time shortens we could be covering the back nine starting this week. Watch for updates from Foretees or this blog over the next couple of days.

Brandon will finish deep tining fairways this week.

Lorelei McManus ready for the hay ride this weekend.

On The Course October 26th

Rubiel spinning out some bunkers with the Sand Pro

 We have had a couple of rains over the past couple of days and even some snow yesterday. The moisture has been needed for the rough areas and especially the trees. Today we are pretty frozen on the course and will be working on winterizing the Golf Cart fleet, moving some equipment into winter storage and organizing the shop. We will be rolling greens and changing pin locations  later today once the course has thawed. We are only looking at a high temperature of maybe 40 degrees for today. We are expecting a extended frost delay over the weekend with the night time temperatures in the low 20's. We will be watching the weather really close over the weekend and into next week to determine a closing day. We are hopeful to get through this weekend and into next week.

Next week will be a very busy week for us as we will try to finish our deep tine of the fairways. We are also going to be working on drainage holes on the greens and getting the mats hauled out of storage. We will start removing golf course accessories next week and get them cleaned up and ready for winter refurbishment. We have marked some trees on the course for possible removal. The trees marked are under consideration for a number of different reasons. Some are affecting the cart paths or creating shade issues on a couple of greens. We also have several areas that are large clumps of Ash trees and our plan is to remove a few ash trees and replace with different species. With Emerald Ash borer on our door we want to make sure we are proactive in our tree plan.

If you have any questions regarding the golf course, winter closing or tree maintenance feel free to contact me at anytime.

Brandon has finished a couple more fairways this week with the deep tine