Vandalism

-

Well I hope everyone is enjoying this October weather. Tomorrow its suppose to be almost 75 degrees.  Unbelievable! !!!!
At this moment I would like to thank the person or persons for driving a vehicle on 13 green. Its so nice to come to work and look down the 13 th fairway and see that something is not right with the green. I was just hoping it was shadows from the trees. Well it wasn't any shadows from the trees. They did donuts in the fairway and on the green and drove through the bunkers.  We were able to patch up some of the torn sod on the green and collars. We top dressed the real bad spots with sand.  We mowed the green to clean things up and it looks a lot better. Now with it being so late in the season there is nothing else we can do to get those spots to heal up. In the spring we will hit it hard with fertilizer and get some seed in those bad spots. Then we will top dress it and give it plenty of water. I'm guessing by June or the end of June it will healed up. Its a sad thing that this happened.  Everyone has worked so hard to keep this golf course in great shape. Then bam something happens. We did put up a fence towards the east to help us  keep cars , three wheelers , and any other motor vehicles off the golf course. If people want to get there vehicles on the golf course they will find away. All we can do is pray that the fence and our neighbors watching the course  will keep them away. At the end of this post there will be pictures of the damage and what we did to make the green playable.
This coming Friday and Saturday October 23 and 24 we will be blowing out the irrigation lines. So if your playing watch out for irrigation heads popping up.
We are trying to keep the greens cleared from all the leaves that are blowing around.  The strong winds we are experiencing isn't helping us. The pine needles are a problem also. We are mulching leaves as best as we can. We just need this wind to calm down and we will be able to do a better job.
Have a great week. ... Dave

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Where did my ball go ???

-
It’s been a few weeks that I haven’t written so I thought I would touch base with everyone and tell you what’s happening at Eastwood. My staff has started painting the clubhouse deck. When we get another nice day we will finish it up. The new white tee on hole 15 is just about ready to open. I believe we are a week out then we will open it. We are preparing for a busy week. On Monday we have a special event for the 18 hole ladies. On Wednesday we have an Mga tournament that starts at 7:30 am. On Thursday we have a special event for the 9 hole ladies. We have been preparing the golf course since last week to get ready for these events. It takes a lot of work to get ready for 3 events in one week. I’m very proud of my staff and they have excepted the challenge and there doing a great job. I’ve been hearing a lot of comments about why is the rough so long and that’s where I got my title from. Believe it or not we have been mowing the rough almost twice a week. Here’s what’s going on. ...
Read more

Chipping area

-
The chipping area is finally opened. There’s a few areas that are still in rough shape but there’s plenty of grass to open it. As of now we are going to keep the height of cut at 2.25 . When everything fills in we will gradually work the heigh of cut down to collar height which is 3/4 of an inch.  With this warm weather you may have noticed that the rough is thick and deep. We usually mow the rough once a week then on Friday mow a few passes around the fairways and mow the valleys. This week we are on our second mowing of the rough. The backnine will be done on Friday then we will make a few passes around the fairways on the front nine and if we have time mow some of the valleys. Mowing the rough twice a week isn’t easy. It takes about 14 hrs to get through the rough once. The math is easy if we are trying to mow it twice a week 28 hrs . That’s a lot of man hrs if your mowing twice a week. There’s days where we won’t have enough staff to mow the rough twice. We will do our best to ...
Read more

Course clean up

-
Image
Has anybody noticed all the pine cones at the golf course this year? Its unbelievable !!!! I blow off a fairway the next day it looks like the pine cones held a party and they invited all there friends. I've never seen anything like this. Well I called in the Calvary to give me a helping hand. Steve Myhro the girls head golf coach at Mayo High School arranged to get his team of girls to give me a hand. They came armed with rakes and they went to town. It was something to see all those girls working as a team to make Eastwood a better place. The story gets better. Mayo and Century boys golf team showed up also. I took the Mayo boys over to hole 11 and we picked up all the garbage on the right and left side of that hole. Then we picked up more garbage around the pond of hole 11. As we were driving back to the front side of the golf course I asked the Mayo boys to take over raking for the gals. The Mayo girls where more than happy to hand over their rakes. The Mayo boys raked for a wh...
Read more