Week of May 22nd

 

Another beautiful weather week.  Your maintenance team was extremely busy this week with normal maintenance practices, finishing up seasonal tasks and working on projects around the club. 

We used the quiet Monday to mow the entire course so the team could focus on pool opening and course projects during the middle of the week. 

This week wasn't without some challenges.  On Tuesday afternoon we had a pipe break under the right side of 10 green.  This was a tricky one to locate.  Fernando and Eddie did an amazing job identifying, planning and repairing the leak with minimal disruption to the green surface.  

One of the main focuses this week was moisture management.  The average rainfall for the month of May is around 4 inches.  This May we have totaled only around 1 inch of rainfall.  With the lack of rain, low humidity and windy conditions the team needed to break out the hoses a little earlier this year.  

Asphalt work is now complete around the course.  I have been very happy with the results.  There are plenty of areas that still need to be addressed and we will continue to plan for future repairs.  

I wanted to show some pictures of the work that was completed on holes 2, 3, 4, 8 and 16.  Above are some pictures of the pipes that were removed and replaced under the cart crossing.  As you can see the pipes were rotting away and posed major safety issues.  It was only a matter of time before one of these pipes completely failed and someone got hurt.  

Lastly, here are some pictures of the finished work.  We are very happy with the finial product and confident that this work will help during heavy rains and have eliminated some major safety issues.  

Thanks for reading.