Reminder of bug spray and sunscreen

Please do not spray bug spray or sunscreen on yourself while on the turf. It will kill it. See picture from one of our fairways below. You can see exactly where they were standing. 

 

New bunkers

The bunker project completely wrapped up last Friday. Golf Creations did excellent work again and finished two weeks ahead of schedule. They compacted the sand much better this year. It will still be fluffy as it dries out, but I am happy with the firmness for new bunkers. I ask that all members please rake the bunkers when you are in them. We are having a terrible time with members and guests not raking the bunkers this year after they are in them. Evening golfers tend to not rake them as they think maintenance will take care of them the next morning. We do not rake bunkers everyday. This helps keep them firmer and allows us to focus on other things around the course. We have done a rake inventory and added rakes in some of the bunkers.

Multiple footprints in the bunker on #1 right after it was raked for the first time earlier in the day

#13 Devlin new bunkers

Irrigation problems

Saturday morning we had a leak under a road in the neighborhood. For the Devlin course we have no as builts. We had no idea this pipe was there. It runs from 10 Devlin tee through people's yards across the street through 2 more yards and connects somehow at 12 green. We have been working round the clock to get it fixed. We have water everywhere except 11 and 12 Devlin. Jeff and James have done a great job and worked a 15+ hour day on Sunday just to get water on all but those two holes. Hopefully by Wednesday we will have it all fixed. In the meantime pray for rain because we missed all the rain on the Devlin course Sunday night. Weiskopf had about a tenth.

Looking for pipe

11 Green irrigation

We had a irrigation leak in the bottom of 11 green right side bunker. This is the 2nd one in this bunker in the last two years in different spots. With the Better Billy Bunker project going on, we needed to make a permanent fix as all three other bunkers had irrigation under them. We decided it was best to run a whole new irrigation loop around the green and not in the bunkers. This will avoid a future headache if there ever was a leak under the bunkers again.

Irrigation water coming up through the bunker

Contraption of pipes 2 plus feet under the bunker

trenching new line around bunker

Sod cut for easy repair

Replacing the sod after line was installed

Guys did a great job

Devlin Bunker Project

The Devlin bunker project started a week ago. So far they have shelled out all the old sand on holes 1 thru 6, 9, 17 and 18. They are putting the new drainage tile in and getting ready for all the gravel. They are making very good time so far. Below are some pictures.

#1 bunker being shelled out

#2 Bunker reshaped from the backside

#2 back side had no lip and balls rolled out of the bunker.  Around 500 square foot was removed and a new higher lip was added.

Final shape of the bunker after the small left sand finger was removed.

Practice putting

While practicing putting on any of the putting greens, please do not stand in one spot. This kills the grass. Please move around. You can see how staying in one spot can cause damage like below on the back putting green at the range.

Foot prints on the back putting green on the range

Another set of footprints on the green

Seeding and sod prep

Most of the stump holes and tree damage areas have been filled and leveled with soil. (160 tons of topsoil so far). Some of the seed we put out has germinated and is starting to fill in nice even with the cooler weather. As it warms up it will look even better. We are fertilizing and spraying wetting agent on these areas to aid in the process. You'll notice some areas on Devlin 1,4,5 that have been prepped for sod and will instantly give us cover either late next week or the following when a truckload of sod is delivered. A future post will go more into detail of the renovation area we will do between 4/5 Devlin.

Sod prepped area on #1 Devlin

Area right of #8 Devlin green prepped, leveled and seeded

Tilling up area right of #5 Devlin Fairway that will be sodded

Stump holes leveled and seeded on #7 Weiskopf