Power Restored, Hurricane Cleanup Well Underway, and Lots of Pictures

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Electricity was restored to our building and more importantly to our irrigation system last night.  The rest of the club's electricity was returned today.  Many thanks go out to John Gillenwater for getting us a generator to run the irrigation and allow us to water greens.  Thanks also go out to our Facilities team of  Wes McIntyre, Brian Bingham, Brandon Moore, and Jeff Sanford. (I apologize in advance for misspelling any of these five names.) John brought us a generator within...

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Hurricane damage

Sunday, August 28, 2011

After receiving 4.5 inches of rain and heavy winds the course is in good shape.  The bunkers held up relatively well and we only lost 5 trees.  The pine tree pictured barely missed #2 green and the left rear bunker.  All greens are in great shape.  The quarry is full of water and the course is draining well.   All of our new drainage is working well and the sod from last week held up great. Our focus will remain on the greens but it will take the next few days to cleanup...

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A few more Projects

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Yesterday we worked on completing two great projects.  We are going to re-grass the first hole's tee surrounds and are working on draining the cartpath edge on the third hole.  Everyone knows that this hole sees the most cartpath restrictions so we are trying to fix those soil moisture issues.  We are laying sod tomorrow and spending the rest of the week prepping for Irene.  Adding drainage to the first 75 yards of the third fairway This is a view of the drainage work...

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Good Rain

Sunday, August 21, 2011

As this line of storms passed through, the golf course received just over .20 inches of rain.  This is great for the greens and all turf surfaces.  Bunkers did not wash so this will eliminate the need for us to waste time in them tomorrow.  We did not have any wash of seed or seedlings that I could find.  The landscape edging, pictured below, helps prevent water from rushing down our sloped green surrounds and washing out newly seeded areas.  Water is flowing into the quarry...

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Wrapping Up a Good Week of Recovery and Improvement

Saturday, August 20, 2011

   It has been a painful process but seeing the new seedlings grow has really re-energized our crew. We applied another application of fungicide to the greens to prevent disease and spiked and re-seeded a few areas that washed during last weekend's rain.  The seedlings on the greens are growing nicely and will be fertilized again this week.     Our team worked hard to wrap up a few projects and get ready for next week.  We completed four separate drainage projects...

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Today's Projects

Thursday, August 18, 2011

The seed has been down on greens 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17 for a full week now.  The rest of the greens will hit the one week mark tomorrow.  We are seeing great germination and seedling growth on all of the greens.  We will be applying a preventative fungicide tomorrow as well as adding a little more seed to a few thin areas.  Overall, we are very happy with the germination. Pictures really don't do it justice.  This is #17 Green 7 Days after seeding.  Any...

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Seedlings

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

We can really see some new growth on all of the greens today.  I have seen germination on all 22 greens and you can really tell where the seed has settled down in the voids left from dimpling and aerification.  We are also seeing a lot of recovery from the original turf.  We anticipate mowing the greens in about 2-3 weeks but this will be on a green to green basis and very weather dependent. By the end of the week, we should see a nice green hue across the entirety of the greens. ...

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Seed Germination and Project Work

Monday, August 15, 2011

The greens that were seeded on Thursday have germinated.  This is a great turnaround of only 4 days.  The .76" of total rain this weekend has helped tremendously.  The quarry is about 85% full and still filling.  Our team is edging and mowing bunkers, fixing liner in bunkers, squaring tee boxes, watering dry spots in fairways, mowing tees, mowing rough, maintaining the driving range, and prepping for sod. Seedlings have started growing on the holes that were seeded Thursday.   ...

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Rain

Sunday, August 14, 2011

We finally got some real rain! Close to 1/2 an inch has fallen on the golf course over the last 24 hours. This has been great for all turf surfaces as well as the irrigation pond. As expected, all seeding was completed on Friday so updates will be posted this week on germination. Have a great rainy Sund...

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Greens Seeding Update

Friday, August 12, 2011

As of this morning, we have seeded 11 greens and prepped 15 greens.  We are currently prepping and seeding the rest of the greens.  Signage will be posted today but we thank you for not walking on the newly seeded greens.  Seeding will be completed today.  We expect germination in 4-7 days.  We currently have 4'8" of water under the irrigation pumps so we are confident that we have enough water to complete germination.  We are prepared in the case that we do not receive...

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Golf Course Update

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

The last few weeks have been a trying and difficult time.  The blog has been silent because communication needed to come out in a different way.  Battling disease, heat and drought has taken a tremendous toll on the golf course.  We are now in the process of recovery and the blog will be updated whenever I get a chance.  We are going to be jumping into a lot of good projects over the next few weeks and I want to share all of these things with you. A few updates, 1.  Due...

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Sprigs 13, 6

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

The sprigs that were planted on July 13 are coming in nicely.  They were mowed and fertilized today.  Even with the pre-emergent herbicide that we put down, some weeds have germinated.  We will spray herbicides for them as soon as we can.  We are having to be very judicious with our water right now due to a 4 week drought but we have to keep the sprigs growing in.  We are currently hand watering tees and fairways but do have over 5 feet of water below the pumps.  We...

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