The staff has been very busy prepping the golf course for the Member-Guest and the Maryland State Open. Mainly this entails just hurrying up our course details with edging beds and pulling weeds. The hot summer has been taking its toll on the golf course with numerous areas becoming dry requiring the staff to hand water. Although a little brown the fairways are playing great and the firmness meter is through the roof.
As we rely on the irrigation the typical problems arise, heads need to be checked for proper rotation or making sure that they actually work. With the recent storms, we have had to do a little more investigative work and physically test every head. These storms bring much needed rain but also large amounts of lightning. Lighting is our biggest enemy because it can ruin the electronics of an irrigation box. This happened most recently, we had to replace a few solid state boards on the golf course with #14 requiring the most work. This box had to have its entire station boards replaced. Not an easy feat with close to 100 hundred wires that had to be separated and reattached to the new board. With over 14 irrigation boxes and over 1500 heads there is a lot to do to maintain the system.
We not only manage the turf but we also manage the IT out in the field.
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| Getting ready to tackle the problem |
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| New board on top |
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| Everything has been replaced and now in working order. |
