News from Grounds Superintendent Dan Nagy

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It certainly has been a busy start to our season. The Fun Fest Tournament was a good success and the course weathered the traffic well. The greens had good color and density and were quite quick according to many participants.

I have never seen the course as green as it was this early for this tournament. I believe a good time was had by all.

During April we focused on improving course conditions and completing renovations. The re-sodding of collars 2,5,9,15,16 & 18 went very well.  They are starting to fill in and green up very nicely. The pump house relocation project has encountered several setbacks due to weather related issues. The major thunderstorms we had in late April delayed digging out and deepening the pond. Once we get some dry weather we will be ready to move forward immediately with completing the pump house renovation.

In May we will look at installing new greens fans around holes 5,6,10,13 and the putting green. Existing fans at greens 2,4,7,12,14,16 will be lowered, spaced out more evenly, and moved closer to the greens. 

A new pond will be constructed just in front of 16 & 7 tee boxes. The extra soil from this new pond will be used to enlarge 16 & 7 tees, raise the slope of 7 rough area to properly drain that hole, and widen 16 fairway. Two 15” pipes will be installed near the cart path to carry any excess runoff behind the aforementioned tee boxes. This pond should eliminate most of the standing water problems in this valley. Some drainage further up on holes 7,15, & 16 will have to be installed later on to correct the standing water issues about 120 yards out from 7 & 16 greens.

We will have several other renovations going on over the next few months.  All are major upgrades that everyone will be happy with, I’m sure. If you have any questions about what is going to take place please talk to me or Bryce Goad about the projects.    

As always thank you for your support and I hope to see you soon on the course.   

Daniel J. Nagy

Golf Course Superintendent