Happy Spring

This past Monday signified the first day of Spring.  And as of today, the forecast for next week looks like Spring weather is coming.   We hope to get out on the golf course with an army soon to get the place tidied up after the winter.  A lot of tree debris has littered the course – including a few trees down in their entirety.  Not much snow in the latter half of the winter and a lot of strong winds attributed to the excessive debris. 

The golf course wintered spectacular.  The greens, tees and fairways all look great – just as we left them in the fall.  Here’s a couple photos of the golf course from last week.

 

Here’s a photo of a putting green and the aeration holes that remain from last fall.  Once the soil temperatures start to rise and we are able to get a roller on them, the holes will fill in quickly.  More sand will be applied to the putting greens in the spring to top up any empty aeration holes.  Hopefully we will be grooming our putting greens for success shortly and if this promise of good weather stands true hopefully we will be golfing soon too!  See everyone soon.

Cool Video

Here's a cool video done by Paul Maccormack, Superintendent at Fox Meadow's out in P.E.I.


Golf Course Superintendent

Happy Halloween

It's October 31 and the golf course is now closed.  It was a great season for the maintenance team, the golf course and I hope all the golfer's enjoyed themselves here.

 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!

 

   Here's a photo I'm jealous of.... -->












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.