In-House Projects

While the irrigation and green construction crews have been hard at work in their respective areas, so has our own golf maintenance staff. Along with our usual maintenance duties, we have taken advantage of the opportunity to work on improving a few areas ourselves. The first area that we worked on fixing was the area at #5 cart path. There was some extra bluegrass sod after stripping around #17 green so we put it to good use. Here are some before and after photos.

Another area that we decided to fix was around the left greenside bunker on #18.  The area outside of the bunker had been raised up by sand blowing out of the bunker in the winter months. It also didn't hold any water which is why the turf died in this area every summer. We removed over 14 inches of sand to get back to the original soil level! We then brought in a little topsoil, seeded it and put mulch mat over the area to help germination. We have been covering the bunkers the last few years with great success and minimal sand loss so hopefully we can prevent this from happening again.

Last year we began a fairway overseeding program to work on improving the density of our turf stand. We have continued this process this year and hope that within the next few years we will be able to see an improvement.

As you can see, we have been quite busy working on improvements to the course! Now is the best time to be working on these projects to get the grass established before it gets too cold.