Cold weather

With some cold weather upon us, we have been doing some things inside.  Have built a box to keep the wood chips from blowing all over the truck while chipping.  Cleaning and maintenance on the equipment continues.   We have got all our bays, tools and irrigation room organized to be able to hit the ground running when the weather breaks. 

Continuing winter work

We have continued with tree removal in select locations and have went through Weiskopf and chipped brush on 9 and 15 where quite a bit of work has been done.             Left side fairway15 before and after Chipping brush on 9

9 Weiskopf tree removal

We have completed removing the trees from the right side of the approach and the big Pin Oak from the corner of the cart path.                        Before tree removal                     After tree removal This will allow use to better utilize the teeing surface by placing the markers on the right with all pin locations. While improving the turf quality where these trees were at. 

Tree work

We had a few trees fall over the last week due to the high winds at the beginning of the week. We have cleaned them up and just need to remove the logs.                  Behind 12 Weiskopf green.            See how dead this was at the base. 

Tee Marker Painting

Every year we paint all the tee markers. This fall after I sent the email blast about winter projects, at least 5-10 members remarked how hard it was to tell the difference between the blue and green tee markers. We had the same issue at Bear's Best Atlanta as well. Instead of repainting the green a forest green, we went with more of a kelly green. It turned out good.

Contrast much better between the blue and green markers freshly painted

One course ready to go out in the spring

Next job is the ball washers and trash cans

Boring under the road

The irrigation line between #12 Devlin green and #13 Devlin tee was broken under the road. This happened many years ago, but became an big issue when another line broke under another road this summer. Once the irrigation system was winterized Precision Golf bored under the road to reconnect the two pipes and added two valves just in case we had another issue. We also put a sleeve in the ground for future irrigation expansion for wires. Below are some pictures.

Exposing the connection area

The old line that was capped

The boring equipment and the HDPE pipe

Weekend Golf

Quick Course Update.

We have received 4.7" of rain in the past 15 days causing the course to be very wet and stay wet.  We are doing everything we can cleaning up leaves(mostly backpack blowing to avoid damage to the course).  We have been able to get out today(Friday) and blow the fairways off.  There are rows of leaves around greens, tees and fairways that we need to mulch up, but it is too wet to get our mowers out to do that. We will try to see if its possible to do some mulching late this afternoon or tomorrow morning without damaging the course.  This weekend we will roll and blow greens, blow tees and get the fairways cleared ahead of play on both courses.  There will be leaves that continue to build up throughout the day and we are doing everything we can to keep the course as clean as mother nature allows.  The leaves are at least 3 weeks behind this year and with the amount of rain we have received, it has made cleanup challenging, but manageable.  Both courses are in great shape and the turf is extremely healthy and starting to prepare for winter. Both Courses will be open this weekend and starting Monday, only one course will be open unless the volume of play is there for two.  Each day we will let the pro shop staff know which course is open. Have a great weekend of golf!!!