See you in 2023!
More rain is here and some crazy cold is coming! Please enjoy the holiday season and we'll see you in 2023! Click here for 105 random pictures from another fun year outside!
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Getting soaked again, in a good place for projects
The sun came out Monday and some breeze finished drying out both courses nicely which allowed us to button up the bunkers on 2 and 3 this week. Grant and the guys blitzed the right side of 2 green, digging it out and putting a new drain in before the Capillary concrete started to show up Tuesday morning. The first nine yards of concrete filled up the back bunker on 3 and got the front bunker started. The second nine yard truck finished up 3 and started the bunker on two. We were about 5 yards short here so we called a third partial truck in and finished off the right bunker on 2. Initially the 2023 budget called for the bunkers on 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10 to all be completed this year. All that remains now are 4 more bunkers on 2. We'll see how the budget shakes out and see if we can squeeze a few more in but this is certainly the furthest along we have been in December compared to past years. Sand is in on 3 and the rain is packing it down. We'll continue checking depths through t
Bunker work continues through the wet but it's warm
Monday was the Hermitage department wide holiday party at Hardywood Brewery. Attendance was excellent and it was great for our staff to be together outside of work and win a few prizes for Christmas. Monday we also let the deep tine aerator loose on all 30 in play greens. The half inch solid tines were going down about 9 inches through the profile. These deep holes will continue help us get water through our sand based system and also create a nice column of air for roots to fill into all winter. The greens were rolled behind and while the holes are visible there is really no impact on putting. The main line on Sabot has made its way up 14 and it getting close to 15. The rain early in the week certainly slowed down progress here. Another small storm is on the way this afternoon and then we'll try to dry out some until the end of next week. On Tuesday we ran up to Farmington CC to catch the second day of our state superintendents annual conference. Pete Wendt, superintendent at
Cold and wet but we are moving! Old back patio canopy is open!
We finally got the first cut down on the new Sabot back nine greens this week. The mowers are set to .200" and will stay there for a while. All the greens are rooted in besides 15 which was the last to be sodded. The few 20 degree nights last week didn't help anything but we have plenty of time to grow these greens in. The irrigation team has reached the pipe behind 12 green that we bored under the Starwood driveway last year. There was plenty of hand digging here having to avoid the existing main line, the power to the well and the power to the fan. Nelson was up ahead fusing pipe for 13. They should be close to 13 green by the end of the weekend depending on what more rain does on Saturday. On Monday the majority of our two crews did a blitz on 10 Manakin green bunkers. All three have now been excavated. The 20 year old drainage is pulled out and new pipe and gravel are put in. The old pipe was very shallow so all the drain lines have to be dug deeper. The floor of each bu