Rainy Monday!

The golf course has received a good amount of rain with more on the way today. As every past season I would always cringed when we would get any kind of rain for fear of how the bunkers would hold up. It was  all that we would talk about or wonder until we could see in the morning. As our past storms have shown its going to be a great year and one that we can worry about other course details.

 One would ask that now that you will not be having to repair the bunkers as much as in the past what will you do with your time? My answer would be to go to the next task. One that we would be able to devote more time to especially on a wet day where we could not mow any way would be filling fairway divots. This is one of the most consistent complaints that we have on the golf course. Other jobs would be more detail work; keeping weeds out of beds, edging irrigation heads on a more consistent basis, and reaching the outer depths of the golf course.

#16 green complex

#14 fairway complex

#15 green side bunker

#16 view from the pro tee

December 20th Course Update

Progress is humming right along with our bunker renovation and I could not be much happier on how far we have gotten this week. Most people up north (Frederick area) still have a couple of inches and were amazed that we had none. With that said the bunker polymer spray team returned yesterday to tackle another round of bunkers, #11,#15, #16,#17 and #18. Its been a bit of a pain with the sun not cooperating but we have managed to use hand blowers to get the gravel to the specified moisture reading so that the polymer will adhere. We upped the anti on our sand installation and they will work until that large pile of bunker sand is gone that sits in the parking lot today for the next 5 days straight. This will be a great advantage going into next week with the holidays and new year. 

#11 left side bunker with a blower to help dry it out

Polymer being sprayed, #18 fairway bunker

#18 green right side bunker

#18 green left side bunker

#18 left side bunker, getting a nose job

#18 left side bunker, ready to dry out and be sprayed

#10 green side bunker prep

#10 green front bunker prep

December 17th Course Update

The bunker construction crew returned yesterday to catch back up where they had left off. Very quickly they roughed in the drainage in the bunkers on #11 and this hole will be ready for the polymer. The company that sprays the polymer will be here tomorrow to spray holes 15,16,17 and 11. Once that is complete and cured the other team will return to continue to add the sand. This leaves us with 18 and 10 to complete and puts us just shy of attaining our goal to be done with the back side before the New Year, not bad concerning the weather we have had.

The Lakewood logo beech tree has been planted and looking great in the parking lot.

15 fairway bunker looking good

#11 right side bunker getting closer

#11 left side bunker 

#11 left side bunker another view

#18 green side left bunker, removing the old sand.

Old bunker sand being top dressed into the rough, its been
a bad area to grow grass, this should help water infiltration.

Tree spade prep

Lakewood logo Beech Tree is back

December 13th Update

With the recent snow storm the course received about 3-4 inches of snow cover and has put the brakes on our bunker renovation. I am hopeful that most of this may disappear next week as the temperatures creep into the lower 40's. After plowing the parking lots and side walks we began to plow the cart paths so that we could continue our work and knock off our winter agenda items. But first we had to go through the entire golf course picking up branches left behind from the ice storm we had recently. This mostly effected our pine trees with nothing of any significance, natures way of pruning. The staff is hauling all of them to a central location where they are being chipped.

All 11 zelkovas have been planted in the parking lot with one more tree we are waiting on to finish up that area. This should take place on Monday, weather permitting.

January 2008

December 2013
When these get bigger its going to change the look
of the parking lot, even next year when the leaves appear.