Practice area

We are aerifying all practice areas today and started on the Creek fairways. We plan to have all the Creek fairways and approaches done by Thursday. The practice area will be done and cleaned up today

It's good weather to aerify

It's cool out, but with this run of dry weather we are taking the opportunity to aerify our driving range tee. It's not disruptive and we will do this a few times in the spring to firm up the surface.

Frosty mornings

During frost delays its a good time for our turf team to clean our work area and pieces of expensive equipment. We have jobs lined up each morning in case we are not able to get on the course right away.

2013 Course Opening

Course cleanup has begun in preparation for the 2013 season. Some of the crew returned on Monday to rake up debris that winter left behind. We will be opening the Lake 9 on Saturday cart path only. Please call the golf shop for more information. Here's to a wonderful golf season.

Recent storm

3.1" of much needed rain fell at the course Wednesday night. We had numerous tree limbs and branches that came along with it. A special thanks to our grounds crew for the cleanup work and fixing the sand trap washouts. They put in many hard hours the past 2 days, but we got it all cleaned up and everything mowed also. Here is a picture of marsh 6 green where lightning struck. It's a good reminder why we all head indoors during these situations.

We got some rain

A total of .9" of rain fell during 3 different storms over the last few days. We desperately needed the moisture and our lake levels could also use a fill. Here is a cool shot of the storm that came through Friday afternoon. Also, it's the same one that ended up in D.C. That night that did some powerful damage if you happened to catch the PGA event at congressional

Wetting agent application

We treated fairways with wetting agent and fertilizer on Thursday and Friday. I will follow up with a better explanation later, but here's the cliffs notes: our fairways are heavy clay and need help accepting the water we give them. One product helps with this and the other we put down helps to hold some of that water in rootzone. After it is sprayed, we wash it off the grass blade to get the process started.