Tuesday, December 07, 2010
The arrival of December has already brought us freezing temperatures, a little snow and winter projects. As we look forward to next season, an area that we can still improve on during the winter months is our bunkers. We will work steadily through the bunkers, checking depths, replacing liner, and adding sand as weather permits. Yesterday, we began work on the right fairway bunker on number Eight. Contaminated sand has been removed, new, thicker liner has been installed and the bunker has been edged to create an ideal sub-surface for new sand. Bunker liner is a fabric that is installed on the subsurface of the entire bunker, below the sand, to help keep sand on the sloped faces and prevent contamination. Playability out of the bunkers is affected by a number of factors, including but not limited to irrigation frequency, sunlight, wind, traffic, severity of slope and most importantly golf course design. The goal of bunker management is to rake every bunker with the same consistency and to maintain consistent sand depths on every bunker slope and base. We will continue our efforts in this area until the bunker sand completely freezes. Please feel to stop and ask questions when you see our team out on the course.
The arrival of December has already brought us freezing temperatures, a little snow and winter projects. As we look forward to next season, an area that we can still improve on during the winter months is our bunkers. We will work steadily through the bunkers, checking depths, replacing liner, and adding sand as weather permits. Yesterday, we began work on the right fairway bunker on number Eight. Contaminated sand has been removed, new, thicker liner has been installed and the bunker has been edged to create an ideal sub-surface for new sand. Bunker liner is a fabric that is installed on the subsurface of the entire bunker, below the sand, to help keep sand on the sloped faces and prevent contamination. Playability out of the bunkers is affected by a number of factors, including but not limited to irrigation frequency, sunlight, wind, traffic, severity of slope and most importantly golf course design. The goal of bunker management is to rake every bunker with the same consistency and to maintain consistent sand depths on every bunker slope and base. We will continue our efforts in this area until the bunker sand completely freezes. Please feel to stop and ask questions when you see our team out on the course.
