The Muni Update Good Morning, The past couple weeks the weather has been above normal temperatures and no precipitation. The non irrigated areas of the golf course have turned completely dormant. The irrigated areas continue to receive as much water as possible. They are hanging in there pretty well considering we
Good Afternoon, The golf update is being sent out a couple days earlier than normal due to a scheduled vacation I have planned with my wife. I will be unavailable for phone calls but will still check my email periodically. I have my maintenance and clubhouse staff organized for the
Good Morning, On Monday morning we brushed our greens in the same format as we’ve done the past couple of years. The greens were double mowed following the brushing of the greens. We collected grass clippings from #18 green after the first mowing and after the second mowing. #18 Green
The Muni Update Good Morning, At the beginning of the week we started refurbishing our existing tee signs around the course. These signs were installed when the golf course expansion project was completed in 2000. We use a special lithichrome paint on these signs to update all the painted areas including
Good Morning, This past week the grounds staff spent the majority of their time on daily maintenance tasks. We have cut back on our mowing frequency on tees and fairways to twice per week. Normally we are mowing these areas three times a week but the growing conditions have slowed
The Muni Update Good Morning, This past week we received 1.1″ of rainfall on Thursday afternoon. The precipitation was definitely needed by the turfgrass and also helped give the irrigation system a break in operations for a couple of days. The unfortunate part of the thunderstorms is it caused the
Good Morning, This past week we hosted the Jasen Petersen Memorial golf outing and our golf leagues inched closer to the end of their season. There were 148 golfers for the JP Memorial event on Saturday. Tuesday we hosted the morning ladies league end of the year tournament. This morning we
Good Morning, This past week our maintenance staff focused on our daily maintenance practices. Our mowing frequency had decreased with the lack of precipitation the past few weeks. Non irrigated areas had become fully dormant and even irrigated areas of the golf course required as much mowing frequency. I expect that
Good Morning, Our maintenance staff has been busy with daily maintenance practices on the grounds along with planning fall projects. Clubhouse staff has been busy with golf leagues, daily golf, and events. Several of our employees will be leaving soon to go back to teaching school. I would like to
Good Morning, This morning we hosted the annual Special Olympics golf outing. There were 27 athletes participating with their sponsors playing two person alternate shot for either six or nine holes. It is such a great event that really brings a lot of smiles to every face on the golf
Good Morning, The warm weather and lack of precipitation has started to really dry things out at the golf course. The non irrigated areas are starting to turn dormant at a rapid rate. The warmer temperatures have started to cause a lot of stress to the turfgrass and also shows
Good Morning, This past week at the golf course staff was busy with daily maintenance practices getting the golf course in as nice of shape as possible heading into the weekend. Our fairways are looking great and so are the putting greens. Every area of the golf course has been
