COURSE CARE

Ballmarks on greens

I was on #7 green cutting cups last week when a walker came up to me to ask a question about the course. After I answered her initial question she made a comment that I sure had a lot of ballmarks that I have to fix. Actually it's the golfers responsibility to fix ballmarks I told her, not the GMS staff. Of course we try and fix as many as we can because we are proud of our greens but usually we don't have time to fix the 30-40 unfixed ballmarks on virtually every green virtually every day. Golfers need to do their part....... so a little help out there please!

Divots in fairways

The GMS team prefer: If the divot is intact and there is soil still attached, simply replace it in the correct orientation and firmly press the divot into the ground with your foot.

Makes no sense?!?!?! A fully intact divot !😠

Just put the intact divot back and press down with your foot

no care at all..... intact divot not put back OR at the very least, divots filled with sand

Hmmmm 😠

Course Damage

In October we had a car do a mini "brodie" on #7 fairway causing some turf damage and this week some "punk" did some damage to #7 green on a bike. Just a heads up to everyone to keep an eye out and report any suspicious loitering you see. The turf has some serious bruising and recovery will be very slow, especially with the colder weather coming.

#7 green

Irrigation Issues

As most of you have seen, we have had some wiring issues on #2 fairway. Once again tree roots along the cart path have caused havoc with our station wires. We had to dig up a portion of the cart path on #2 and cut out a section of tree roots and repair the damaged wires. It's a painstakingly long process going through and matching the bundle of 28 station wires we had to cut but we also had to repair a section of our lateral water line that was being affected by the roots.