Great Weather = Great Progress

With the great weather that we have been having we have also made great progress. This past week the irrigation crew completed a significant amount of difficult work. They completed irrigating hole #5. They also completed 2 road crossings. The first crossing was from #4 green to the circle outside the entrance to the Inn where the flagpole stands and the second was from the Inn entrance over to the croquet court. That completes all of the road crossings needed for the irrigation project. The irrigation crew also tied into the old pump station at #5 tee. Below is a picture of the crew making the connection with the old pump station.

The Spence Golf crew also made significant progress. #11 green was stripped, cored, drained, and mixed. The crew began sodding the green on Friday afternoon. Unfortunately rain and incoming storms prevented them from finishing but the sod work is 75% complete and will be finished on Monday.

Our crew has also been extremely busy. The past few weeks we have been working hard at repairing the irrigation trenches. We rake the trench to prepare the soil for seeding, then seed and cover them with mulch mat to enhance germination. This process is quite time consuming but worth the effort in the long run. We also aerified all of our greens and tees this week. We began topdressing all of the aerified areas and will complete this task next week.

 As you can see we have all been extremely busy. This coming week the irrigation crew will be working on hole #4. The Spence crew will finish #11 green and then move over to #7 to complete the drainage work and #3 to finish the back tee.