It has been a while since I have added an entry but the project was taking up all of my time. There were a few bumps in the road but we are finally finished. Glen Oak's members now have 18 new green complexes. This includes over 1000 tons of Valley Forge Buff bunker sand, 300,000 sq/ft of new Turf Type Tall Fescue surrounds and an expanded chipping green and upper putting green area. We will be completing the chipping green, in house, in the next few days. The project took around 3 months to complete. Most of the sod has already knitted in on the open 9 and the rest is well on its way for next year.
Along with the project my crew completed the collar and approach replacement with Penn Trio Bentgrass sod. This will get rid of the patchy look that we had on the contaminated collars that we had previously. This process took 4 days to complete and the crew worked very fast.
For the rest of the year we will be installing drainage on the golf course and some other small projects that will improve play-ability. Some of the drainage will include the new fairway expansion on #2, #5 fairway on the left side as well as into the fairway and some areas on 14 that need drainage. These projects are along with our normal winter maintenance; dormant fertilizer feed and snow mold protection, installing greens covers, fairway dormant fertilizer feed, preventive maintenance on all equipment and repairing and revamping all course accessories to name a few. By the time we have completed all of those it will be time to start cutting grass again.
Along with the project my crew completed the collar and approach replacement with Penn Trio Bentgrass sod. This will get rid of the patchy look that we had on the contaminated collars that we had previously. This process took 4 days to complete and the crew worked very fast.
For the rest of the year we will be installing drainage on the golf course and some other small projects that will improve play-ability. Some of the drainage will include the new fairway expansion on #2, #5 fairway on the left side as well as into the fairway and some areas on 14 that need drainage. These projects are along with our normal winter maintenance; dormant fertilizer feed and snow mold protection, installing greens covers, fairway dormant fertilizer feed, preventive maintenance on all equipment and repairing and revamping all course accessories to name a few. By the time we have completed all of those it will be time to start cutting grass again.