Busy, Busy

     We have been very busy here at the golf course lately.  The weather has finally cooperated.  We finally went 10 days without some sort of moisture.  We were able to get our pre-emergent herbicide  down to all of our tee's and roughs. We sprayed our tee's with round up to remove any winter weeds. Irrigation system has been pressurized and so far no leaks.  Speaking of leaks we did have a problem with the water line at the Halfway house.  It took 3 1/2 days to fix that problem.

We had to dig up the water line and repair it

We had to replace plumbing in the wall of the Halfway house.                              

     

     We will be installing some small yellow markers in the fairways where the family tee's are located.  People that walk are having a hard time finding the tee's.  If you drive a cart we have markers on the path letting you know where they are.  Anyone that walks has a harder time.  We hope this will help find the family tee's.

We can mow right over this flexible stake. 

     Finally we will be doing our spring Green Aerification Monday April 1st and Tuesday April 2nd.

 We will have E@E here to deep drill all our greens.  We will then run our Procore behind them.  If everything goes as planed it should only take 2 days.  Front 9 will be closed on Monday and the Back 9 will be closed Tuesday. 

 Our Toro Procore. Punches a 3/8'' hole 3'' deep on 2''x 2 1/2'' spacing

Floyd McCay Deep Drill Machine.  Drills a 5/8'' hole 10'' deep on 5'' x 5'' spacing

Is Winter really gone

     What a winter we have had this year.  We seen it all.  Lots of snow (25''), some ice and quite a bit of rain.  We seen temperatures near 0 and highs near 70. Since November we have had 16'' of moisture on the golf course from snow, ice and rain. We have been getting some sort of precipitation every 7 to 10 days. It has been very difficult trying to get projects done this winter.  We have cut down quite a few trees. (see previous post)  Last week we fell two more big White Oaks that died.  One was north of #1 greens just across the cart path in edge of woods.  The second one was in woods behind our gas tanks at shop.  I had to call a expert to get these two big trees on the ground.  We did not want to destroy the cart path on #1 and I was worried about our gas tanks with the second tree.  We caught a break last week and was able to spray our fairways with our pre-emergent herbicide.  I was beginning to get worried if we were  going to be able to get the spray rig out on the wet golf course.  Just so happen we had 2 days of high winds and then it turned cold and froze the ground.  The spray rig had no trouble. We finished just before the last weeks snow.  The high winds did give us a huge mess with limbs that fell but it was worth the mess to get our fairways sprayed.  Looks like warmer temperatures are in the future but rain is also in the forecast.  We desperately need some dry time.  Below are some video's of the tree's we cut down and spraying fairways.

Spraying pre-emergent herbicide on 18 fairway.

Cutting down White Oak #1

White Oak behind gas tanks at Maintenance Building.