Cultural Practices are abundant at HCC

Our greens aeration was completed on Monday. By starting the process on Sunday evening, we were able to complete this cultural practice in a timely manner. On the greens we heavily topdressed, solid tine aerified, brushed in the sand, verticut, rolled, fertilized and watered. I am happy to say that all of the greens were in play by the time the first group played through on Monday. This was a great feat considering that we were delayed by 2.5 hours with a frost on Monday morning. Our grounds staff worked very hard to get this process completed in a timely manner to reduce the disruption to play.
Today we will be solid tine aerifying the tees. We would rather core the tees, but with alot of rain in the forecast, it would be too messy. We will topdress following the aerifying (not before...too wet) and then we will move on to topdressing the approaches later in the week.
Next week we will be verticutting our fairways with our new Siisis Veemo Verticutting unit. Some members noticed that we used this unit on our approaches a couple of weeks ago with great success. This will be a rather time consuming process, but well worth the effort.

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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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