Good Morning, This past week staff continued to work on our landscaping renovation project. The majority of the plant materials have been removed and we started adding some black soil around the perimeter of the landscaping blocks. Crystal O’Clair has been helping us with a new plant material design that
Good Morning, It’s been a beautiful Fall golf season so far at The Muni. The weather has been great and we’ve had a lot of golfers enjoying some wonderful playing conditions at The Muni. We are still offering all day golf with a rental cart for $35 or purchase your
Good Morning, This past week staff was able to clean out on the remaining landscaping beds. We used the landscape vacuum to remove the river rock and old mulch in all of these areas. This material had been in the landscaping beds for the past 24 years. It was necessary
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
