Finishing Up the Major Sodding Today

This morning we will be finishing up the major sod repairs on the greens and additionally we are finishing the collar repair on the front nine greens. After today all of the repairs will be minor spot repairs which are slated to continue all next week. Speaking of next week we will be sand and leveling these newly sodded areas with plans to aerify them in another week after in a smooth effort. I will be out on vacation all of next week but still be in touch with my team's progress ... if my wife allows it I might even keep the postings updated.

Miguel Working of Sod Repair on 1's Green

I am still hearing that there are still some summer members that believe that the transition should never occur. The top management from JC is trying to address their concerns but the plain truth is that if you overseed there will be transition ... facts are facts. I truly wish that that there was some magic fairy dust that I could sprinkle over the golf course that would fix this problem but as on today's date no such dust exist.

Sod Repair on 1's Green

Another thing I hear that we treat our summer members as "second class" compared to the seasonal members. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of my assets are slated towards the summer months to address heavy turf growth, higher irrigation usage, heavy defoliation from the trees and of course the golf course. Our staffing for the summer is increased 16% to address the needs of the summer time, but it is true that we also do things such as projects and aerification ... and of course transition.

Removal of Back Bunker Almost Complete

During the season ... at the start, we close for five weeks to switch for warm-season to cool-season turf. And we spend additional one or two months getting it strong for January the start of the heaviest play. While we are closed and in November the golf course looks ugly at first until the cool-season turf grows in ... but in the summer we remain open during the conversion back to warm-season turf thus what is only weeks seems like months of ugliness. If we were like Big Horn we would close for 10 weeks during this conversion to warm-season turf, or even like Bermuda Dunes, we would close for 2 weeks to make this conversion smoother. We are not like either of those courses and remain open during the entire process.