Snow, Equipment maintenance and Tee Markers

Winter work started a little early this year and so did the questions, "What do you do all winter?"  Well, snow plowing is our everyday #1 priority to keep the walks and parking lots clear. Other tasks include cleaning and painting all amenities such as ball washers, trash cans, tee markers, benches, signs and anything else that needs refreshed. Tree worked is performed as well as any drainage work we can accomplish once the ground freezes. All maintenance on equipment takes place and 2 employees tackle that from mid November to mid March. We have six full time employees including myself that are constantly busy in the "off-season". Please stop down at the maintenance area to see all we have going on in the winter. Below are some pictures of today's work.

All walking greensmowers cleaned and ready to be serviced and reels ground and sharpened

Tommy Wetmore cleaning reels

Kenny changing gear oil in one of the sprayers and winterizing

Mike Baglia paiting the black body on 1 of the 360 tee markers that need painted

The difference of a fresh coat of paint on the bodies(was done last winter as well).  After all the black bodies are done, the colors are painted on and are ready to go in the spring.

DryJect demo on #5 Weiskopf

We did a demo of a different kind of aeration last Thursday on #5 Weiskopf. The machine uses water pressure to create channels in the greens to then fill with sand. This may be an option in the future at Quail Hollow.

The Green sand shows how deep and how well the sand gets in compared to regular aeration

You can see the new white roots from the aeration hole from 3 weeks ago

Our recent aeration has been great for creating channels for air and water to get into the soil

#17 Devlin fairway

You will see #17 Devlin fairway with a roped off area for the next few days. We had a 6" mainline blowout occur sometime Thursday night or Friday morning. It looks like it was an old fix that was done in the past. We have valved down the Devlin irrigation and will fix the break sometime next week as the weather permits.

not good

after water was shut off

Weiskopf aeration

Today we finished up our fall aeration on the Weiskopf course. We aerated the greens with 3/8" cores. On Devlin we used 5/8" so these are significantly smaller and should heal faster. We pulled cores on the tees and approaches and spiked all the fairways. The course will be open tomorrow depending on the forecasted rain.

Jeff Austin aerating the cart barn putting green today

Up close view of green before the sand

Club's phone system and network down currently.

Rain

We received almost 2" of rain yesterday. Throughout the day and last night we got another .1". It is very wet on the course as we still have some standing water on greens, tees, fairways and rough. We will be Cart Path Only today with no blue flags. We will evaluate throughout the day, but with a chance of rain again tomorrow we may be on the path again. Thank you for understanding. 

Men's Member Guest

Last weekend was a great weekend to be part of Quail Hollow's Member Guest. Weather was great, and participants had a great time. A big thanks to our staff in GCM for all the hard work and long hours to provide top notch conditions.

Lining up at #1 Devlin tee waiting for last group on Friday night

Our version of Augusta fairway mowing

Rolling #1 Weiskopf and irrigating hot spots around bunkers