Happy Holidays

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday season!

High traffic repair

New flagstone rock along cartpath by #11 green. This solves our problem of high traffic in this small area.

New sod

New sod on #8 bunker face as well as a few others. Will look great next spring!

We received some much needed rain last night. Three inches to be exact, along with 1.5" the previous two days brings us back to normal on rainfall for the year.

We are officially in frost season now so please check in with the proshop before you come out to play if you think we have frost. Typically we see heavy frost on nights when the low temperature dips into the twenties. Playing on frost can injure the crown of the grass plant since it is frozen. Causing a bruising effect or purplish appearance to the turf.

Aerification

Aerification is now complete. Both Tees and greens were aerified. Allow 7-10 days for healing to take place.

Venting greens

Greens venting is done every two weeks and provides improved oxygen exchange to the roots of the greens when hot humid conditions persist. This has been a very successful practice and helps us maintain consistent greens conditions.

2013 Web.com/Midwest Classic

This turned out pretty good.

Wildflowers

Wildflowers in full bloom

Flooding

Our 4th green this morning. Water receeded quickly and no damage was done.

After recieving 2" of rain over the weekend our pond is now full after being dredged. Below are some before and after pictures of the pond since being dredged.



                                         Before 

                                         After
                                       

Pond update

The pond dredge is complete. We just need some help from Mother Nature to fill it back up with water.

Pond update

Pond dredge resumes

We are back in action with our pond dredge project. We just need some dry weather for a few weeks so we can finish.

Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo

Pond

Dredging has begun.

The snow is almost gone except for bunkers and some cart paths. We are however very wet, so the course will remain closed today (3-29) but we should be good to go tomorrow. Thanks for your understanding. Also, as a reminder we will be aerifying greens and tees next Monday thru Wednesday, April 1st thru the 3rd.

As you are all well aware, we are getting caught up with our average snowfall for the year. So far we have 14.7" with another 7-13" expected tonight thru tomorrow. Our average annual snowfall for this area is 20". In case you are wondering it takes 10" of snow to equal 1" of rain so we are still a ways off in terms of getting caught up on total moisture.

Happy New Year everyone! As I'm sure you all know the club is closed until the 15th of January. Due to the  snow on the course we will be closed to walkers until the snow melts. Please check back for updates on the status of snow cover during this period.