Golf Course
The last week of daylight savings time and the sunrises have been beautiful.
The golf course has been soaking up the sun and the grass has been using it to produce large amounts of chlorophyll…
Thursday (Nov 1st) we put out our new course accessories. As suggested, we painted the ball lifter so that it blends in with the flag sticks. Turned out pretty well. We will have to see how it holds up over time.
New cups…
Finished product with new flag, flagstick, lifter and cup…
I wanted to highlight the result of a new practice we implemented this summer. We root pruned trees along the perimeter of the course to reduce the competition with the grass from adjacent trees.
I have noticed the benefits on many holes like #17 near the green for example but captured the picture below of the area near the putting green.
Here are the lines where the roots were pruned near the practice green in July…
And here is the same area this week. You can clearly see that the grass where the roots were pruned is much healthier than the area where the turf roots have to compete with the tree roots.
Common Grounds
Gustavo and Paulino have been working on a nice new planting along the cart path near the fitness center. Most of these plants are donated, propagated from existing plants or plants that have been relocated. We have to add pinestraw but the plants look great and have made another area of the GE property beautiful.
Facilities
Hector’s did a great job repairing the back walkway to the lanai. Over time the pavers had become loose and needed to be reset to reduce the potential of tripping over the loose pavers.
The Radio Road Entrance monuments were painted this week and turned out great.
I look forward to seeing everyone on the course or in the facilities, and as always, if you have any questions, flag me down or shoot me an email. I always enjoy talking turf and facilities too!
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