Wednesday, June 06, 2012
The last two days have been great. On Monday night, the golf course was host to a course care event. The event had a great turnout despite the rain of over 50 members. The event detailed bunker care and etiquette, divot care and etiquette and putting green etiquette. We also toured our golf course maintenance facility and had dinner at the clubhouse. The night ended with a great overview of our department and questions and answers with Eric Frazier, our Director of Agronomy. Overall I am very thankful for the turnout and very encouraged by the great support and questions that came up during the event. We will be looking to host another one of these programs in the future. Many thanks go out to the course care committee of Joe O'Hare, Paul Sinclair and Lee Parker for planning and marketing. I also have to thank Kevin Mark, Lead Assistant Golf Course Superintendent and John Anderson, Equipment Manager for helping with the tour. John will mark his 26th anniversary of employment at the club on June 30th. Thank you John and Kevin for all you do.
Key Points of Bunker Etiquette: Enter and Exit at lowest/safest point
of bunker. Rake your footprints and any disruptions with the provided
rakes and place them outside of the bunker, parallel to the hole when
finished. Knock the sand off of your shoes when finished to avoid tracking it onto the green.
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You can fill a lot of divots when you have 50+ people walking the fairways. Filling divots is simple and the only thing to do is to fill the divot with the provided sand and smooth the area with your foot or club. Overfilling divots can damage mowers and waste sand. Other teeing ground and green etiquette would be to fill your divots plus one and to fix ball marks plus one. Throw your broken tees into the taller rough where the large rotary mowers can easily chop them up. The smaller reel mowers used on tees can be damaged by these broken tees. Please pick your feet up and avoid twisting with the spikes on your cleats when on the putting surface. Great event and turnout.
Tomorrow marks the beginning of Men's Member Guest with a practice round. The tournament will be on Friday and Saturday. Thank you to our team for putting in long hours to get the golf course in shape this spring. Countless projects have been accomplished this spring and the sprigging between 10/12, 11/12 and 12/14 will be finished next week. I am very excited to have these projects finished and to have turf from 10 tee to 14 tee. Our team will be aerating greens on Monday and Tuesday. This disruption will be a necessary practice to help the greens this summer. Fans will also be installed on #1 and #15. The portable fan will be moved around as needed and the fan will be installed on #4 once we can get power to that green. These three projects next week will really wrap up our projects for a while. The last two projects on our list this year will be finishing the water cooler stations and grassing the area to the left of #9. Thank you for all of the support this spring and we are ready for a great summer of golf.
