The annual leaf season insanity is well underway. The weather has been kind to our leaf clean up thus far with lots of dry sunny days. The leaves came down a touch later than normal this season which was great news for the later events here such as the Ryder Cup and the Fall Scramble. ( I'd like to thank both those tournaments for once again supplying me with golf balls for the upcoming season)
Here's a couple photos to provide insight to the leaf madness at Pike Lake. Kudo's to the maintenance team, it was a long hot summer and the leaf season is always a grueling undertaking. The trees are roughly 90% bare - so we are almost there!
Other to do's for the fall include our greens aerification process which we started last week on the Lake Course. We are using the same size of tines as last fall - 7/16 or 11mm. There's some nice warm sunny days to start off November which will not only make the greens aerification process run smoothly, but we may even get some late growth this fall that will kick start the healing process. Here's a couple photos that will scare you ... BOO
We also hope to finish the tee deck's on the Lake Course that we've been constructing. Once the leaves are done and we finally have time again - sod will be laid on the tees if the weather is co-operative. And of course the fall application of fungicides to make sure we have grass to play on again in the spring. Thanks for the great year and hope to see all of you again in the spring of 2017. Happy safe winter.
