We have been very busy working on underbrush and tree removal the past 2 months. We started with underbrush to the east side of 10 green and worked our way down the fence to 12 black tee. Air movement is what we are trying to enhance on 10 and 11 greens. The next thing was to remove 10 trees around 10 green. This will help with light, air movement and help establish much better turf on the back side of 10 green. We will be removing 4 trees to the south and east of 11 green also. These trees are shading 11 green. All trees removed were trees selected by the USGA Agronomist John Daniels during his visit last summer. There are 2 trees at #11 we are cutting down because they are leaning heavy over the fence. If they fall it will destroy the fence giving the cattle access to the golf course.
Some of the trees removed from #10 were in bad shape. We cut two trees down that were hollow. the picture below is the tree that was right next to cart path leaving 10 green.
After we remove the stumps we are going to grade and sod both sides of cart path behind 10 green. This will be a huge improvement. Trees will not allow good turf to grow under them. Below are some pictures of both 10 and 11.
10 green
We chipped the tops
10 green
11 green
We cut brush and then chipped it with our chipper
11 green completed
My staff has worked very hard. We were able to cut down and clean up 2 trees a day unless play was heavy. We had a few days the golf course was extremely busy for winter.
