On The Course November 9th

Our first snowy sunrise!

 The crew made some progress on getting the course closed for winter. We have been delayed by the snow this week but it finally melted last night and we were able to spray the greens and cover 1-6 and 9 greens. We will be working on the rest tomorrow and should have a couple of nice days later in the week to finish up. Monday and Tuesday do not look like they will get above freezing.

The leaves are coming off of the trees and we should be able to get most of them cleaned up late in the week. It has been a pretty good golf season despite the late start and the recent weather. I am very happy with the condition of the golf course as it goes into winter. We just need a few more days to get everything wrapped up.

The crew was able to shovel some of the snow off of the greens before it melted to help with them drying out.

Corey spraying greens after the snow had melted.

The crew working on covering #3 green

Mechanic Shaun Hill giving a helping hand mulching leaves

On The Course October 28th

Gabriel isn't dressed for Halloween! He's Cold!!

 We had very nice weather this past weekend and we are looking at a couple more nice days in the forecast. The practice range has shut down for the season. Pete is aerifying the range floor and we have pulled the covers off of the turf tee to allow it to harden off for winter. All of the golf course accessories have been pulled from the range tee and stored in the shop.

Corey is deep tining the tees on the Championship Tees today after they were mowed. We will begin to pull some course accessories later this week depending on the weather. We are planning on closing the Championship Course on Sunday, November 3rd. This will allows us several days next week to get the Snow Mold Protection applied and get all of the greens covered. We are looking at a couple of rainy/snowy days this week and will be working on getting leaves cleaned up and mulched. There are still a lot of leaves hanging on in the trees.

Jd had a great idea last week of making the course a little "Tough". We let Troy have at some interesting pin locations and it sounded like everybody had a great time.. We found out that you can't enter 0.5 paces from the left edge on our pin locations sheets. We will be keeping the Executive Course open as long as possible as we do not cover those greens. We will be blowing out the irrigation system starting on November 4th.

Superintenden't Revenge pin location on #8 Green

Corey deep tining #10 tee

On The Course October 17th

We have had a rainy couple of days this week and ended up with a total of just over 2 inches. The course is draining and #18 fairway with the XGD drainage installed last week is draining very well. I have included a video above that shows one of the catch basins that was tied into to help the fairway drain. If you cannot see the video you might have to access the blog from a browser. I am very happy with the drainage work and can't wait to see how it performs in the next few rain events that are in the forecast.

We are going to be rolling greens and blowing the leaves off. We will be spraying our first preventative application on greens for snow mold today. Pink Snow Mold can be a problem in cool wet weather and that is what is forecasted for the next couple of weeks. This will set us up for our final snow mold application right around November 1st. We will be watching the forecasts very closely over the next couple of weeks to make sure we have enough time to get the course ready for winter. We are planning on covering greens again with the excelsior mats and will need 3 good days to get that accomplished.

XGD Crew working On #18 last week