1/18/19
Golf
Maintenance FYI
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Treatments
will continue next week on the Bermudagrass Mite area. I am already seeing
signs of the insect returning to areas throughout the golf course. As already mentioned,
it will be a battle over the coming weeks to ensure success.
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The
maintenance building project is really showing some signs of progress. The new
offices have had the drywall installed this week and gutters for the buildings
are being installed. The lights for the new buildings are operational and those
buildings have received a provisional Certificate of Occupancy to allow us to
store equipment under the canopy. Painting of the interior walls is scheduled
for next week. There was a delay in setting up the ESD wash station and it will
not be fully operational on Monday afternoon next week. This will be a great
help.
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All
staff are to be commended for their efforts detailing the golf course. Some
creative scheduling by David Forrey with assistance from employees volunteering
to work additional hours (overtime), we have been able to present the golf course
to a very high standard for the Men’s Invitational.
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Compliments
to David Forrey, Roman Gomez, Jason Miller and staff for their work on the
nighttime putting and chipping competition. I am aware of one complaint from a
resident who was not impressed with the bright lights shining into their home.
We will learn from this issue if this event occurs in the future. Overall it
was a great success.
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Fairways
and Approaches were sprayed with a liquid fertilizer early this week due to the
cool weather forecast. Our warm weather grass turns off-color in cool
temperatures and stops growing. The fertilizer will help maintain color and
encourage growth.
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Flavio
has been overseeing the installation of new plants on Sago Point and Wisteria
Point this week. We expect to finish up next week followed by an installation
of new pine straw.
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The
Practice Tee over-seed still looks great although it is shocking how much abuse
the turf receives from the practice shots our golfers take. It will be very
interesting to see what it looks like in 2 months’ time – my bet is not very
good and that it will take considerable effort to have our bermudagrass
recover. We are fortunate to have installed the practice mats in 2016.
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The
Green and Grounds Committee sent out the first golf course etiquette email
blast this week and it has been warmly received. The Committee will continue to
send out weekly reminders highlighting several areas to educate and remind our
members.
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Overall
the golf course remains in good shape although you can clearly see a difference
in appearance from last week to this week due to the cooler weather and heavy
golfer traffic. It was interesting to attend the Golf Committee meeting last
week and hear them wanting to add more golf to the already record setting
47,500 rounds. Yikes!
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This
coming week we will be topdressing the greens on Wednesday afternoon followed
by aerifying on Thursday. This can only be done due to our positive
relationship with a neighboring Club allowing us to borrow two machines to
compliment our two machines to get the work done ahead of play. I truly do not
think Members have an idea of what it takes to keep up appearances amongst all
this golf. I assure you my staff does, and I can’t thank them enough!
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