Practice Tee

I love seeing this! This is a perfect picture of how we'd like divots to be taken on the practice tee. Rather than creating one large hole of divots (like on the right side of the picture), divots should be taken in straight lines to speed up the recovery time. That large hole will take a LONG time to completely fill in, while the line of divots should only take a few weeks for that grass to close in . The seed that is in the divot mix is only intended to help fill in those holes, not completely re-grow them. We rely more on the grass surrounding the divots to spread throughout the divot. Thank you to whoever has been following the signs on the practice tee!!!

Cart Traffic

If cart signs or rope/stakes are put up, please obey them. Please do not just drive around them. Cart paths are put around the greens and tees for a reason. It's very common "golf etiquette" to keep carts on the paths when provided. Thank you for your cooperation. 

Overseeding

Getting some new seed in the ground over some high traffic areas yesterday. These areas will be marked with a lot of cart signs and as "Ground Under Repair," please do not drive carts into or hit out of these areas. The new seed should be germinating by as early as Monday of next week and will continue to fill in as the poa is dying out in these areas.

Water Damage

As you all know, we had a LOT of rain in June. With one of the storms, we had a major washout on the dam between 8 tee box and 5 fairway moving one of the tubes 100 yards down stream. On Tuesday afternoon of this week, we finally got it fixed. Thank you very much to the guys from Bentons to get it taken care of, it turned out great!! Below are a few pictures of them replacing the tube and pouring concrete around it to hold it in place better. 

nd it to hold it in place better.

Rain Totals 6.19.14

It's been quite the week for bad weather around here. Rain and wind have contributed to not so desirable playing conditions. Monday night we had 3 inches, 3/4 inch Tuesday night, and so far today we've had 1.65 inches (with plenty more on the radar). The golf course typically takes rain and drains pretty well, but not this much this quickly. I have some pictures below that I took this morning.

 Standing between 1 and 2 looking to the West

 Looking up 2 fairway

 Standing on 9 green looking down the fairway

 Putting Green

 17 Green

 17 Tee

 Looking down 3 fairway

Standing in front of 2 green, looking down the fairway

Storm Damage 6.17.14

The storm that went through last night caused considerable damage to a lot of trees out here. With straight line winds in excess of 70 mph, over two dozen trees were completely lost with some pretty heavy limb damage in many more. 3 inches of rain has the creek and ponds out of their banks, but the wind was definitely the worst part of the storm. Unfortunately, the Martin Brothers outing today had to be cancelled and the course will be closed until at least noon with no carts all day. Men's league tonight will also have to be rescheduled. Most of the damage was on holes 5 and 13. Below are a few pictures.

Member-Guest

We verti-cut and double mowed again today with a light topdressing. Greens should be rolling really nice for the Member-Guest this Friday and Saturday! Hope you're signed up!

It looks like it's going to get pretty hot and humid this week. Try to avoid turf stress in the fairways by driving golf carts in the roughs. Also (as always), keep them on the paths around greens and tees. Keep what we have looking nice!! Enjoy this weather, I know this is what I was praying for about 4 months ago!