As I am typing this it is blistering cold out there, if not for the wind it would not be such a bad day. But none the less we are pressing on with our winter projects. The fairway top dressing is moving along, with a few set backs such as blown tires and main support beam that separated it self, the back nine almost complete. As you may be aware we have closed #6 and #8 greens for the year. With the amount of work that needs to be done in front of these holes it was our best option in terms of safety. Since they are closed we went ahead and aerified them to keep on improving the sand profile.
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| 9 fairway |
With that said we are close to finishing the leveling of the low areas on #9 fairway and installing drainage to pick up the water that sits on the path. We hope to to have this completed tomorrow. The front of the 6th green is getting a makeover with the releveling of the approach to the green along with some water diversion areas that will take place in the next 2 weeks. Starting next week the irrigation loop on #8 will be dug up and moved to situate the two heads out of the middle of the approach. At the same time there will be a rather large drainage install going on in the approach. As you can see the approach marked with red paint.
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| 8 approach |
You may remember when I brought up the fact that we top dress the rough with the contaminated bunker sand that we pull out after major storms. Well over time this gets even more contaminated with large rocks and even asphalt that is coming apart at the shop. Every time we would top dress there was a rock detail party sent out to collect them. And not to mention damage that it sometimes can do to the spinners. We had done some research and found a company that rents screens for this purpose. In the photo you can see that job taking place and it worked very well for us. The stock pile that has accumulated is around 200 tons and yes all of it was screened! So when we are not top dressing fairways we are top dressing rough.
Stay tuned for more updates and new projects.
