Hermitage CC Golf Course Management

  We took our shot at a giant live Christmas tree this year. A decent looking cedar was plucked from behind 1 Sabot green Monday morning and hauled up to the plaza with the excavator. The tree survived the wind on Tuesday and our team has been attempting to decorate it all week. It's not perfect but it is something different and should spark some conversation during the holiday season! We got the excavator back into its proper position quickly on Monday and dug out the left bunker on 12. This will most likely be the last bunker we renovate for a while until the weather warms back up a bit at night. The capillary concrete showed up Thursday and was laid out as the sun and temperatures rose back to comfortable levels. All finished up and ready for sand. The sand trucking company has been a little slow this week as we are still waiting on sand to finish up the right side bunker. We are due all 4 loads of sand today and tomorrow so these bunkers should be back in play early next week.

  Here we are in Mid-November and all of the fairways still have a pretty decent green color. Looking back at pictures from last year however it seems that we are almost exactly in the same position color wise. The weather has been dry and beautiful this week even though the leaves can make things interesting at times. November 15th, 2022 The Sabot greens have had a great year and continue to roll nicely into the fall. The greens were again topdressed this week and lightly brushed. With little growth happening it takes a few days for the sand to work in. Some rain is finally on tap for next week which may soften things up a little. Bunker work has been the focus of the week on Manakin. We crossed over the 200 ton mark of sand installed. The crew started off by finishing off #4 on Monday. The greenside bunker on 6 and this fairway bunker on 6 received its Capillary concrete on Wednesday afternoon. This week was tough with the concrete scheduling as we were only able to get a few afterno

  The weather has been nothing short of spectacular this week for golf. Most of the fairways fought through the two quick frosts last weekend and remain green. The sun has been out and both courses are playing plenty firm for November. Bunker renovations on Manakin kept on moving this week in the sunny weather. The capillary pervious concrete was laid in the front bunkers on 4 on Monday. The concrete trucks pulled right up to Quail Run to make laying this 18 yards of concrete pretty simple.  3 more trucks carrying 27 yards of mix came in Thursday which allowed us to finish off the back bunker on 4, the right bunker on 6 and almost finish the front left bunker on 6. More concrete is scheduled for next week after the 30 degree nights disappear again. We hope to have 6 buttoned up next week. New sand was hauled to the front bunkers on 4 this week and both are back in play. More sand will head to the right of 6 tomorrow and and all next week. Putting these bunkers back in to play while cha

  The cold weather is here finally after some glorious temperatures last week. The frosts this week will shock the green color out of the bermuda and continue to drop leaves off the trees. Our bunker renovations for fiscal year 2024 have started on Manakin #4. All the sand is removed, the floor is lowered a bit and new drainage is installed. The capillary concrete is set for next week and we hope to have #4 buttoned up for next weekend. Work will move ahead to #6 as well this week. The old tennis proshop was demolished this week since we had that permit in hand already. We are still waiting on the ground disturbance permit in order to start grading the site. This 12" slab of concrete is going to take some work to remove. All of these preparations are being done in house which come at a significant savings to the club. New 7' tall Green giant Arborvitaes were installed along the clay courts this week by our service road and Manakin 17. This screening has been a long time coming