Beware of the Red Foxes

If you can't find your golf ball and you see some foxes around.  Don't be surprised if you see one of them with your golf ball in their mouth.  I have seen this occur twice this season and have had a couple of members tell me that they have had this happen to them as well.

Roller Base Sprinkler Watering

We are placing these around the course this year in an effort to water some of our dry spots.  We are only using 4 of these at a time.  When playing if one of these is in your way.  Simple grab a hold of the hose and pull it out of your way.

This is hole number 5 with 3 roller bases and a section assistant doing some hand watering.

Details, Details

Attention to details is what keeps us looking SHARP

Here we have Ben supervising/training Raghu repainting the the numbers on all the yardage markers on the tee boxes

 Nic staining benches on the tee boxes.

 Jose our bunker crew leader edging bunkers.

Here we are removing thistle that is growing in our fine fescue next to 12 green.

Edging sprinkler heads

South Range Tee newly sodded/Poa annua removal

Since we expanded, leveled and layed new sodd we added steps because of the grades becoming steeper

Majority of upper level was finished last fall.  All that was left were the tie-ins

The Arrival of Spring

Once the snow melted there was little to no vole damage. The least amount of damage since 2004.

Plenty of dead Poa annua because of the fall Tenacity applications. Once things green up and begin growing we will know what Kentucky bluegrasss will recover and begin sodding out the dead Poa.

Range Tee Expansion

As the season came to a close our focus turned to completing projects for the upcoming season. One of the major projects we undertook was the expansion of the North Driving Range Tee. The existing tee of 11,943 square feet did not provide enough teeing space to allow for the recovery of used hitting areas before the same hitting area was needed again. The newly leveled and expanded tees are 21,170 square feet and will allow for the recovery of hitting areas before the same area is needed again, therefore providing a better practicing surface throughout the playing season.
We began the project by removing the sod from the existing tee boxes.

We removed and saved as much sod as possible in an effort to keep costs at a minimum. We saved turf from the slopes surrounding the tees and were able to put it back on the slopes after enlarging the tee boxes.

The turf from the tee top was thrown away due to the amount of Poa annua that was on the driving range tees. We replaced it with sod that was free from Poa annua.

We then began the excavation process. We removed approximately 12 inches of soil from the tee box closest to the chipping green and used that soil to expand the entire teeing area. We lowered that tee so that we would need to bring in less fill material to create a larger teeing area.

We used our dump truck and carts to transport the soil to the various parts of the tee that needed additional fill material.

We then brought in screened topsoil to level the teeing surface and to make the slopes in front of the tee boxes tie in with the driving range floor.

To ensure proper drainage on the tee box we made sure to maintain a 1% slope from back to front. To measure the slope as we were putting the finishing touches on the tee, we divided the tee box into ten foot sections and leveled and measured the slope one section at a time. The sections were divided using grading stakes and string. Top soil was spread out and compacted in layers to ensure proper compaction and to maintain a level surface.

We then laid sod on the surface of the tee.