Every season Labour day marks the end of the work year for a number of our team members. Our department utilizes a number of university and high school students during the heart of the golf season. Once these integral members of our staff are gone for the season, we begin to reduce our mowing frequency, limit bunker raking to a couple of times a week and start to look at round numbers before moving pins and tee markers, etc. This allows us to continue small projects and keep up with the leaf control (once they begin to fall). Your patience and understanding is appreciated during these busy times. Our department does their best to stay ahead of golf at all times, but with limited sunlight in the morning and early tee times this is often unavoidable as well.
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.
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