Photoshoot #11

On Tuesday August 27th we had a marketing photo shoot on hole #11 at Great Waters. We were split tee that day starting at 8:00 AM on holes 1 and 10, so this did not give them much time for the shoot. The team also wanted all of the dew off of the hole before they started taking pictures. We sent the majority of our crew to 11 and in 20 minutes we had the entire hole mowed out. This included mowing the green, tees, perimeter, fairway, and rough, we also flymowed around the bunkers and the shoreline, blew out the bunkers and raked around the bunkers.  I wish we could have had a time-lapse camera set up on the tee to catch all of this action because it was pretty neat to watch it all come together. Here are a few pictures of the marketing team taking their pictures.

Rain, Rain, and More rain

Just an update on the amout of rain that we have gotten this summer.

May was not bad with only 4" of rain. June also saw a small amount with about 3.5".  Then July got here and we got 16" of rain, and so far in the month of August we have received almost 7" of rain.  I took the following pictures on Monday of this week after the bad storms Sunday night. We have river rock in a lot of our drainage areas and I have never seen it rain so hard or run off so fast that it washes the river rock out onto the golf course but as you can see from the photos it did this time. 

The pond on #2 full of debris

You can see just how far the water went out onto the green in this picture.

Aerification 7-30-13

This past week we performed our big yearly aerification on greens. We did a 5/8" hole on a 2X2.5 spacing. Our process was very similar to what we did in the spring with a few minor adjustments. We Double verticut Greens, Top dressed heavy, aerified with core harvester attachements, cleaned up the plugs by hand, brushed 3 times, rolled, then lightly blew off. The next day we put out all of our amenentments. We also used these 2 closed days to aerify tees and double verticut all of our fairways. 

 Here is #1 being aerified, after the verticutting and top dressing. You can also see the verticut units in the fairway here.

This was 2 days after aerification.