Member Guest Week!
Member-Guest Week! The golf courses are dialed in! The weather has really cooperated with us this week for once. A couple of inches of rain the week before, and some possible rain the week after—the stars are finally aligning. Conditions are firm, and greens are rolling anywhere from 12'8" to 13'3" this week. The heat, dry conditions, and properly timed wetting agent and growth regulator applications have both Sabot and Manakin greens playing at a top level. Our tendency is to find things wrong with the golf courses, complain about them, freak out about them, obsess about them, and then execute a plan to improve those conditions. That's the round robin that goes on every week at the maintenance facility. Every once in a while, it's important to appreciate the view. These couple of weeks are always a whirlwind, but when you step back, it's easy to appreciate the results of all the hard work. Ben Longest, along with his assistants Tae Kim and Will Holc...