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| So Soft Even the Members are Having Difficulty Removing Their Footprints |
The bunkers are still having difficulty in becoming smooth but yesterday we put four team members to address the issue, and today we will address the issue again. Super soft bunkers, such as they are when we till them (even at a depth of 3 inches), are extremely difficult to get back completely playable. I suggested to the pro shop to consider them GUR for one more day to get them back under control. Between the tilling and smoothing it requires approximately 80 working man hours to complete.
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| Lightly Topdressing 18's Green |
Today, to further improve our excellent greens we will be lightly topdressing them. These light topdressings smooth any imperfections, reduce ball marks, and speed the greens back up ... not that they were slow to start with.
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| Ernie Lightly Dragging 7's Green After Topdressing |
Speaking of speed, in a effort to improve our cup setters we are working on a non pinable area maps for each green. But I heard this yesterday, as in the past, about the pin on 6's green. It was a back pin position which even at slower speed is extremely limited on amount of placements ... but it was commented it was on a slope. This was partly true that it was on a slight, flat slope. The key is flat slope. With so limited positions in the back, if the back of the green is to be used at all, it almost always will have a slight slope to it. And when the green speed is over 11 as it is now, it is a tough but possible putt. On day we will address these back positions on 6 and 7's green, and make the necessary repairs ... but until then my team will do its best to limit the cup on these slopes.
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| Looking Good -- 18's Green in the Morning |
Side note: Just got though watching one of our resident hawks kill a coot ... thank God for the hawks feeding their young.
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