For any of you who played golf here at the club on Thursday and Friday (Nov 11th & 12th), you may have been able to witness some changes happening to the #9 greenside bunker on the left side. We are in the process of rolling the grass down to the bottom of the trap completely around the the bunker.
This week we completed the first half of the bunker and the next week we'll be digging out the opposite side. So for all of you playing golf on Wednesday (Nov 17th), be aware of machinery at #9 green. We'll be renting a mini excavator to help in speeding up the digging time, we have a bunch of soil to remove.
Once this process is finished with the mini excavator we then have to finish smoothing out the soil and then replant the sod.
After this is completed I will then travel out to #9 fairway and see if the sand is visible from the fairway. If it's not, then we'll return to the trap and remove the sod on the end that is facing the fairway and remove the soil to help make the trap visible.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Winter grass
Monday, November 8th the maintenance staff put out the winter seed for the tee boxes on the course and the driving range tee box as well.
So be aware, if you see water running throughout the day hours we are keeping the seed wet. This is required in order to get the seed to germinate in a appropriate time frame.
Once we begin to seed sprouting, should be 7 to 10 days later, we then can back off the water and start the mowing.
Everyone be on the look out on the driving range fairway. I overseed an area from the 200 yard green to the tee box in a shape of a fairway. Hoping that during these winter months while everything is dormant(brown) you'll be able to have a concept of hitting down a fairway, as if you would out on the course.
So be aware, if you see water running throughout the day hours we are keeping the seed wet. This is required in order to get the seed to germinate in a appropriate time frame.
Once we begin to seed sprouting, should be 7 to 10 days later, we then can back off the water and start the mowing.
Everyone be on the look out on the driving range fairway. I overseed an area from the 200 yard green to the tee box in a shape of a fairway. Hoping that during these winter months while everything is dormant(brown) you'll be able to have a concept of hitting down a fairway, as if you would out on the course.
#7 Green
Well I'm sure plenty of you have noticed some damage to #7 green. So if you see the Superintendent putting on his camo gear, painting his face, and loading up some dynamite. Look out Caddy Shack III has been activated.
Do you realize I worked at that golf course in Southern Florida where Bill Murrey ran around blowing up the course. The name of the club was Rolling Hills Golf Resort in Davie, Florida. Both movies, all the golf course scenes were shot in Florida and all the clubhouse scenes were shot in California.
Back to the #7 green: What we are dealing with is a mole. Moles will dig tunnels in the ground and move about in them. In most cases not really hurting anything however in this case he's hurting our putting surface. The staff went in and cut the on the edge of the tunnel and lifted the grass to stuff the tunnel full of sand again. Otherwards this is a friendly warning to Mr. Mole "it's know time to move out".
We'll continue to monitor this critter and if he /she doesn't want to cooperate, then we can look a permanent way of moving him out.
Do you realize I worked at that golf course in Southern Florida where Bill Murrey ran around blowing up the course. The name of the club was Rolling Hills Golf Resort in Davie, Florida. Both movies, all the golf course scenes were shot in Florida and all the clubhouse scenes were shot in California.
Back to the #7 green: What we are dealing with is a mole. Moles will dig tunnels in the ground and move about in them. In most cases not really hurting anything however in this case he's hurting our putting surface. The staff went in and cut the on the edge of the tunnel and lifted the grass to stuff the tunnel full of sand again. Otherwards this is a friendly warning to Mr. Mole "it's know time to move out".
We'll continue to monitor this critter and if he /she doesn't want to cooperate, then we can look a permanent way of moving him out.
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