A busy couple of days....

During our annual course closure we strive to complete as much as possible...through extensive planning and organization this was evident this year. With the golf course closed we are permitted to perform our procedures in an efficient and very effective manner. As you will see in the list of completed activities, our Grounds Dept. worked tirelessly to complete about 5 days of work in 2 long days.

Tasks completed on August 2nd/3rd:

All greens aerified with hollow tines (cored)

Cores shovelled off by hand

Greens top dressed

Greens over seeded with T1 bentgrass

Greens brushed

Greens fertilized with Potash fertilizer

Greens fertilized w/Soluble Ammonium Sulphate 12-0-12

Greens rolled

All Fairways and Approaches were Verticut using our Sissis Veemo Vertical Mower

Fairways and Approaches were blown clean

Fairways and Approaches mowed

Tees solid tined using 5/8 tines

Tees top dressed

Tees dragged using a steel matt

Practice tee top dressed and matted

All of the rough was mowed (completely)

All bunker banks were fly mowed

All mowing around the landscaped areas completed

The Elm Tree on #5 we removed, along with stump grinding and clean up (5 total)

Our Grounds Department greatly appreciates the time allowed to complete these very crucial cultural practices. If it were not for our dedicated and talented staff, this process would not have been so successful. I truly appreciate all of the hard work and commitment from our entire team...HCC Grounds.

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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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