A couple of things to mention...

Every season, at this time of year we say goodbye to a few of our staff members. Our staff is made up of a diverse group. We have retirees, university students and high school students (with the exception of a few full time seasonal staff members). Therefore, Labour Day marks the end of the summer for our summer staff to return to school. As many of our members will notice, a few tasks start to take longer to complete and some mowing is done in the late mornings and afternoons to compensate for staff shortage. September is usually the hardest month, we still receive summer like weather and the grass is still growing at a quick pace. I assure you that we do our best to provide consistent, high quality playing conditions for our entire season. We do appreciate some common golf etiquette a little more at this time of year. Raking bunkers after play, fixing divots and ball marks need to be done more than ever at this time of year.
On another note, fall is a great time to perform a number of cultural practices like verti-cutting, brushing, solid tining and topdressing. Many of these tasks proved to be hard to complete with the very wet summer that we had. I will post our "cultural plans" each week so that there are no surprises when members come out to play. Thank you for your understanding...
*Weather permitting: we will be topdressing greens Tuesday, September 15th.

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Bunker construction on # 17

The past few days we have been able to make great strides on the bunker project on #17. All three of the new bunkers have been shaped and drained. Tuesday morning Ian Andrew our consulting golf course architect, will be painting the final contours in the bunkers. We will then install the bunker boards and back fill with topsoil to the new edges. Once the edges are established we will add the new sand and await sod. The rain and snow that we recieved over the last couple of days has had little effect on the rough shaping process. We are hoping for some drier days to complete the fine tuning and sod prepping.

Golf Course Update

As our season slowly comes to a end our department has been working away at year end projects. We installed drainage in a few areas of the practice range and short game area. These areas were perpetually wet and caused turf and aesthetic issues. We have also been chipping away at the bunkers on #17, smoothing out the faces and recreating the grass edges. These bunkers suffered some severe frost heaving in the faces during the winter after they were built. Our team has removed a number of trees and brush from around our maintenance facility to allow some expansion of our operation. We are working away at clearing space to install aggregate bins and sufficient staff parking. This will also allow delivery trucks and semi's to access our facility without any issues. We are also removing the fallen trees and brush from the woodlot on the right side of #16 fairway. This is a challenging area to work as it is a peat bog and remains wet even in the hottest and driest of summers (like 2010)...

Finish Grading on #2 & #12 Tees

With the great weather that we have had the last two days, we were able to get the tees shaped and all of the tee mix out to the tees. In this picture here, Derek Vergeer (our contractor) is finish grading #2 Tee to be ready for sod. Unfortunately the forecast is for rain the next couple of days and could hold us up for a bit. We are doing out best to complete these projects in a timely manner, of course with this blog we will keep you updated.

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