Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!

   

Slainte Mhaith!

Stewardship

After a few beautiful 70 degree days in FEBRUARY, we are sitting here in the middle of March looking out at 8+" of snow and ice. As all of us wait with baited breath to get this season underway I felt this was a perfect time to discuss a topic that to this day still is an issue. BALLMARKS! I want all of our members, guests and staff to realize whether we are playing Augusta, Merion, Rivercrest, or the local public course that it is our responsibility to take time and repair marks left by our play. It's part of the game that many times is overlooked and  leaves the course in worse shape for the players behind.
I started playing this great game at 9 years old and the first lesson I had with the local pro was him discussing course etiquette. He instilled in me to leave the course in better shape than I left it. Fix your ballmarks, rake the bunkers smooth, and replace your divots.
After 35 years I'm still amazed when I tour the course every morning and walk on these greens there are ballmarks completely untouched. Always try to fix your mark as well as find another to fix while you are waiting for your friends to putt.


   


These photos above were taken on Saturday, October 15th from 4 green.


Now, we also need to fix the mark correctly. Fixing the mark incorrectly will leave an ugly scar on the green for weeks or longer.  I have posted two videos below on the proper way to fix a ballmark.

5 Tee Revamp

I'd like to thank Doug Mottin and his staff from Mottin Golf Course Renovations for the excellent work reshaping the black/blue tee on #5. The original tee on black/blue tee was not large enough to handle the traffic and we were forced to use sections on the back of the 12th tee for hitting. Another issue was the rough area in between the two tees was using up valuable space and needed to be corrected.
The back tee was a paltry 1200 sq. feet and after reshaping is now 2700 sq feet!! This new tee will give us many more tee placements to distribute the wear.

The back tee- half the width of the forward tee. 20+ft. of rough wasting space.

The machines arrive and digging begins. The mini-ex carves a soft taper off the back of 12 Tee.

Load after load hauled away and stock piled at our shop for future projects.

The floor almost completed to a 8" depth. This was then laser leveled for a small amount taper for drainage.

After drain lines were dug and pipes installed, approx. 80 tons of tee mix was added and leveled.

The surface was plate tamped(compacted) then spun with our bunker machine. Sod Arrives!

Penn -trio sod installed on the tee along with turf type tall fescue rough sod for the border.

FINISHED PRODUCT!

 The whole process went smoothly and seamlessly. Thank you to Doug, Kris, Brett and the crew for a fantastic job!