Another pic 8

8 green water

The Tide is rising pretty high around 8 green.

River holes

The river is starting to come up. It is in the waste bunker now. Hopefully it does not come up much higher and stays out of the newly finished greenside bunkers.

Range sod

Here is a picture of the range on Sunday. The sod is almost complete. Hopefully it all holds up through the storm.

A few of the greens are coming in much slower than the rest of the greens.  Greens like #5, 7, 8, 12, and 14 are a little behind the rest due to the early shade that is getting on these greens.  Sunlight this time of year on new greens is extremely important to help the greens mature.  

 

We removed t a lot of trees behind 14 and trimed up some other trees, and I have seen a beneficial affect on this green just within the last week or so since the tree work was done.

 

We will continue to do some selective thinning to decrease the amount of shade on these greens. 

 

 

 

 

Range pic 2

Range

Starting sod work on the range today. There is one crew working on final prep and one working on laying the big roll sod. Each roll is about 400 sqft. We laid a tractor trailer load today and will do 2 each day, tomorrow through Friday. We should have the majority of the sod done by the beginning of next week. The cart path should be in by Monday. After all this is done we will have to install all the matting and the tee station.

We should have the range back open sometime in the first week of November.

Trees 14

We are doing a lot of tree work on 14 green to get that green more sunlight and air movement. This work has made a huge difference and I think it will help our slowest developing green to mature faster.

We have removed a bunch of Sweet Gum trees and one very large red oak. Should make a world of difference.

Greens

The greens look good for the most part. 5, 13, and 14 are a little less developed than the rest of the greens but still ok. The greens have really slowed down with the cool weather but it looks like there is some more warmer weather coming.

Mowing greens

We are mowing greens for the second time today. I lowered them to .210" for the second mow. The greens are growing fast thanks to the warm, humid weather we have been having.

I will be working the height down the next couple weeks to get the greens "trained" on growing horizontally instead of just vertically.

10 fairway

Working on fixing the sub-base.

Fairway bunker #10

We started working on the fairway bunker on 10 in-house before most of our staff leaves for the year. I want to try to get the holes with only one fairway bunker completed so we can have entire holes that are finished with bunkers.