The Muni Update
Good Morning, This past week our staff was able to apply our scheduled September fertilizer applications on the tees, fairways, green surrounds, and most of the rough on the south end of the golf course. This was completed on Thursday morning and the nightly irrigation cycles have mowed the fertilizer prills down near the crown […]
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Good Morning, This coming week we will begin painting the remainder of our tee signs in the landscaping areas. We will also start removing plant materials and the river rock in these landscaping beds. Today’s update will cover the month of August up to this weekend. Precipitation The rainfall totals year to date equal 29.50” […]
The Muni Update
Good Morning, This is the first week we have not had any recorded precipitation for the majority of the golf season. The irrigation system has been running every night trying to provide adequate water to the golf course. We have not really used the irrigation system, on a regular basis, for most of the golf […]
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Good Morning, Another week is in the books at The Muni as school starts back up and the temperatures start to drop. We are fortunate to have great maintenance and clubhouse staff that love The Muni and all the golfers that visit us on a daily basis. With school back in session quite a few […]
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Good Morning, It’s been a beautiful week for golf at The Muni. We hosted the Unified Golf Event last Sunday with 31 teams participating. This event allows athletes from the Special Olympics to play with a sponsor and complete nine holes of golf together. This is one of my favorite events of the year. It is a […]
The Muni Update
Good Morning, Well, it’s been another crazy week of weather at The Muni and NW Iowa in general. The derecho, on Monday night, left a lot of small tree debris scattered throughout the golf course. We also had eight large trees blown over during the storm. There were five different storms that produced a total of […]
The Muni Update
The Muni Update Good Morning, It was another week with heavy rain and the grounds staff was busy trying to play catch up with maintenance practices. The Muni has received 9.05″ of rain for the month of July. The golf course is completely saturated and we have had surface flooding multiple times during the past couple of weeks. […]
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Good Morning, This past week was definitely a challenge due to the amount of rain received which caused a lot of surface drainage across the entire golf course. The Muni had 1.5″ of rain on Saturday, July 12, followed by 2.1″ on Wednesday early morning, and finally 2.0″ early Saturday morning. Monday and Tuesday were […]
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Good Morning, It was another very busy week at The Muni. The weather was beautiful leading up to the storm with heavy winds early Saturday morning. We lost a large tree next to #11 tee box which we are in the process of removing this weekend. #11 tree on 7-12-25.jpg I have been working on […]
The Muni Update
Good Morning, This past week was one of the busiest golf weeks we have ever experienced at The Muni. The first six days of the week we had filled tee times for most of the day, every day. We had our weekly scheduled golf leagues and only open golf on Monday thru Saturday. This morning […]