Bunker project

The bunker project on the Weiskopf course is starting to wrap up. The crew from Golf Creations did a great job and would have been done in less than two weeks. Weather the past two weeks delayed them from spraying the last 16 bunkers with the Better Billy Bunker polymer liner. The moisture in the gravel must be less than 15% and they have to have a certain temperature to get a good spray. They have worked the past two days trying to finish the project this weekend. The ones that are complete turned out great. We will do everything we can over the next few months to pack the sand. The new sand will be fluffy for a short amount of time until it gets packed in much better.

Golf Creations spraying the polymer

over 400 tons of sand were delivered yesterday

#3 Finished product from the tee

#4 Finished

Sand bottles

In the past there have been sand buckets with seed on the par three tees. This year we have removed the buckets because we are filling the divots everyday with sand and seed as part of the morning setup. This allows the divots to be taken care of daily and one less thing for the mowers and setup guys to move. As part of morning setup, they are trained to empty trash, move tee markers, seed and sand divots, change water coolers and check ball washers(this has been added as it was not getting done ). Please still take sand bottles from your cart to fill divots on the tees as there will no longer be buckets. We are working with the pro shop staff to make sure the bottles stands on #7 Weiskopf and #10 Devlin will have replacement bottles when you are out of sand. 

Valve project coming along

One if the main reasons of the capital valve project was to completely isolate the irrigation on the Devlin course from the Weiskopf. The valve that shut down the Devlin would not shut all the way. Precision Golf came in and put a new valve to isolate the Devlin. Between 8-10 more isolation valves will be replaced or added and all the holes that have been dug will be gone. They should finish up early next week.

8" main shutoff valve for the Devlin

Bunker project

The Better Billy Bunker project will now start on Monday, May 5th. With all the rain forecasted this week it has been pushed back a week. We have all the drainage supplies and polymer material at the shop and ready to go. Golf Creations out of Chicago is the company doing the project and their equipment will be rolling in all week. We will be doing all the green side bunkers on the following holes on the Weiskopf course.  Numbers 3,4,6,7,8,13,14, and 17. We also will be doing the fairway bunker on 6 as well. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Better Billy Bunker Polymer at the shop ready to go

Big Day

The greens on the Devlin course were deep tined aerated today. An outside company brings in two machines and the process takes about 7-8 hours. We were able to go about 7-8" into the greens which is about 1-2" deeper than last fall. Since the Devlin greens are "push-up" greens, they are native soil and have no internal drainage. We did not pull a core this spring, but choose to create more deeper channels into the greens. This should help push roots deeper and allow water into the greens. A 0-0-50 fertilizer was also applied to the greens today. With Devlin closed, we were able to mow all the approaches, fairways, step cut and all rough on the Devlin today.

The greens on the Weiskopf were lightly topdressed as well this morning. We also continued with spring cleanup, more mowing and the capital valve project. The fairways on all 36 holes were also sprayed with plant protectants, fertilizer and pod annua seed head control. 

Deep Tine Machines in process

Finished product after sand and dragging 

Ray Hartman spraying fairways

Good look down #14 Devlin fairway from the green

Snow melting

The snow yesterday and this morning has melted off and we will be ready to go once we thaw out in the morning. Lots more cleanup work, bunker repair, greens being mowed and sprayed are on the agenda for tomorrow. Here are some pictures from today.

Snow on #1 Devlin around 11am

Snow melting on #2 Weiskopf

Looking back towards 2 devlin from 2 weiskopf

Ready to get this mulch out!!!

Short grass mowing

The greens on both courses were cut earlier this week and we have continued to roll them. Today we cut the collars, approaches and fairways on both courses. We will do tees tomorrow(depending on weather tonight) and mow greens again tomorrow. This really cleaned up the short grass and made the fairways and around the greens look good.

#14 Weiskopf half cut (good color in cut areas)

#1 Devin first pass

Lots of grass