Course Update

I hope everyone enjoyed last weekends warm weather and I certainly hope spring is just around the corner.  The seasonal maintenance staff is now beginning to ramp back up.  We should be fully staffed by mid May, so I appreciate your patience as we improve areas throughout the course.  Bunkers will soon be edged and today we will be receiving two semi loads of sand to the maintenance facility.

Through the winter we removed some trees around greens to improve air flow, reduce roots encroaching into greens, increase sunlight and improve overall bentgrass health.  The pics below show you the trees removed.


This Austrian Pine was on the back right of #2 green.  Notice
the weak turf in the foreground where roots are causing
the turf to decline.




This Austrian Pine was back left of #2 green.  Hopefully the bentgrass will recover
on the collar and green.

  


This Spruce was behind #7 green.  The rough, collar and green
should begin to recover.





This Spruce was removed from back right of #5 green.  The
roots encroaching into the green have been taking out
turf for a while now.





This Spruce was behind #15 green.





This pine was removed from right side of #1 green.



This winter we also built two divot sand bottle stands.  Hopefully
these will make great additions in improving turf quality.  One
will be placed at the practice facility and the other at #10 tees.