Sod and Stuff

Here are some photos from the past week. We resodded the walk up to #1 green with common bermudagrass and also included the gold tee on #2 and the red tee on #8. We are asking all players to avoid steppping over the rope on #1 as the sod is moist and slippery while we establish its root system. Please pull your cart to the back of the green

PLEASE DO NOT PARK HERE

SIGN DIRECTS PLAYERS TO PARK AT BACK OF GREEN

PLEASE AVOID WALKING INSIDE ROPES

THE MORE WE STAY OFF, THE FASTER IT WILL ESTABLISH

We also cleaned out the creek between #10 green and #11 tee. We do this 4x/year.

We also laid sod on #8 red tee and that came out nicely. In a week, we will roll it with our greens roller. Please avoid using the tee. The red markers have been temporarily placed on the front of the white tee, adding 15 yards.

#8 RED TEE

Despite the very challenging summer, there are always some nice shots of the course available as the following illustrate:

#5 FWY

#2 GREEN

#1 FWY (THE GEESE NOT SO COOL!)



Congrats Eric!

Eric Gifford, our current Assistant Superintendent was recently selected from hundreds of applicants nationwide to participate in the Green Start Assistant conference to be held later this year in Nth Carolina. His essay on the 3 biggest challenges to the golf industry caught the judges attention and Eric will be off to learn in late Nov. The conference will cove rmany aspects of our profession including agronomy, human resource management, budgeting and PR. This, combined with AGC's own excellent Assistant Superintendent Advancement Program, will have Eric ready to continue his excellent progress at WR and be on the fast track to becoming a superintendent. Well done Eric.

Eric with Bayer Environmental Rep Gordon Vosti

Here is a recent photo of the pond work on #10/18. Quite the progress from 2010