The greens recovered beautifully. On Wednesday we cut the greens after a couple of days of dragging and got a smooth cut. All of the members I ran into were completely happy about the greens and were amazed on just how quickly they recovered. As I explained to them, turf is a biotic system just like humans that if it gets scalped it takes a couple of days to heal from its injury. We still will be working on the greens over the next couple of weeks to have them perfect for overseeding.
Ants around the golf course have been treated by CV Vector Control yesterday. Vector control sent out their team and treated the entire golf course and a select few homes that called in problems. They told me that they did not find very many active mounds but treated all of the ones they did find. The best part is that they provide this service completely free to Avondale GC.
Summer Plan: I have been hearing from the Pro Shop that their are members who believe that this plan really is Jeff (me) running the golf course. Nothing could be further from the truth. The summer plan was developed in response to the Board's request to provide our summer members excellent golf course with a limited budget. This idea was given to the Green Committee to develop along with the Golf Committee, the GM (at the time), the head pro and the superintendent. After six months a plan was produced and given to the Board (which was the newly elected Board) for approval which they did approve.
So what is the plan's basics and what does it provide to the members:
1) The pro shop will be present seven days per week thus providing excellent service to our summer member and their guest ... since they are salary and their work week is still less than 40 hours this was at no additional costs to the Club.
2) There was no change to the start time of 6:30 am, however, between 6:30 to 7:00 am all groups playing had to be threesomes or more. This allowed the pro shop to have better control of the start times and the playing times.
3) Any mini-shotguns and play itself started off of the first tee. Once again this allowed the pro shop to have better control of where the play was and ensured our summer members to have a prepared golf course to play.
The summer plan has been a great success and has done exactly what it was intended to do ... that is provide a prepared golf course for the ALL of the summer members to play while allowing the maintenance to finish their preparation in a timely manner thus getting more done with less and saving the Club money.
Saying the course is ran by me because of the summer plan would be like saying the Garden Dining room is being ran by Andrew deciding the hours of being open ... the decision for the summer plan was a well thought out plan in concert with the Green & Golf Committees and the Board.
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