The last couple weeks have been extremely busy here at the
parkway. The weather has been absolutely
great for growing grass, as you all know.
I certainly hear about the rough every day. The good news is the grass has begun to slow
down and the mowers are getting caught up with the grass and the complaints
seem to be slowing down.
We are very fortunate to have great staff working here at
the parkway. There are people here that
are willing to go the extra mile so to speak.
Luckily the students in the maintenance department are some of these
employees. But, of course they have good
examples to follow like Ruth, Don, Tyler, Richard, and Keith. Without staff like this, we would not be able
to pull of some of the crazy ideas that I come up with. Not only do they get the tasks done, they
also keep the course in great playing conditions as well.
The past week we put a collar around the putting green. This all came about my first year here when
we extended the green towards the north. When this happened it was my intention to put
a collar around the green and at the same time it would allow me to install a
sprinkler head at the north end of the green.
Well it took a couple of years but finally we stripped the sod, dug the
trench, installed the sprinkler and sodded the collar. At the end of the green the collar that was
added is a lot wider, this will be cut down to green height in the fall. The end result will be one pass with a mower at
collar/fringe height all the way around the green.
We borrowed a trencher to install the sprinkler head on the
putting green.
The sod that was stripped to put back on 15 tee and those tees were squared up. The sod from the tee then came up to the putting green.
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| As always Lexi has her two cents to put in. |
Garden irrigation was installed around our sign at the front
entrance.
As well there two sprinklers installed on the main decks on
14. Before there were only two heads to
cover these two teeing areas and both sprinklers threw water to the east. Now there are two sprinkler heads on the
other side throwing water back to the west, helping the tee by providing double
coverage. The two alternate tees on 14
did not have proper irrigation so we moved up a sprinkler to cover these two
decks. Finally to complete the few days
of chaos we added a sprinkler head on the back of 13 tee complex as well.
All of these additions are going to help to keep healthier turf and a beautiful front enterance to boot.
As always if you have any questions please fell free to contact me.
Cheers Kendall
