Leaves and projects

We have had our first few frosts and the Bermuda grass is going dormant quickly. But what hasn’t happened yet is the full onslaught of leaves. The last few cold mornings have expedited the color change and leaves should come in earnest the next few weeks, albeit later than past years. Our projects are also nearing completion.

The point where we connected our new
irrigation pipe to the existing pipe
at #1 approach

We expect the leaves to start raining down over the next few weeks. Blowers will be a constant around the course. We blow as many leaves as we can into the taller grass native areas to get rid of them, but in some cases that isn’t possible. Our other tactic is to use our vacuum. The leaves that we must collect in place are blown into piles, and our vacuum patrols the course cleaning these piles.

The connection point and new pipe
at #1 approach

We have completed the final touches on our two projects from the last month also. All of the pipe is in on the drainage project on #12. The water is finding its way to our drains and is exiting the course without causing any more issues. We still need to tidy up our work area a bit more before we call the project 100% complete, but the majority of work is done.

Start to end of trench for new
irrigation pipe at #1 approach

Also, we are nearly complete adding the new irrigation pipe and sprinkler heads on #1 approach. We added 2 new sprinklers and about 180’ of pipe. Although with the rain this year, our irrigation system as a whole had a lighter than average year, we still identified this area as an area of need. The new heads were added in the wide approach area that swings to the right of #1 green towards the pond.

Adding these two heads will allow us to more effectively and efficiently water this particular area. 

We have individual control over these new sprinklers and therefore can water the area in need without having to use sprinklers that are not ideal. In the past, the sprinklers that we would have used were two far away and would not water the area well, but we had to use them in order to get some water into the spot anyway. Previously, these other sprinklers would have also made areas too wet by adding water where it wasn’t needed. Now we have better control over where the water ends up.

Luckily, we wrapped our projects ahead of the major leaf cleanup work. We will have a lot of labor directed to blowing over the next few weeks. 

Please note, we will be switching to once per month posts for November thru February. Thank you

Etiquette Reminder of the Month

Please leave bunker rakes inside the bunker once you are finished.

Also, as part of a Golf Committee initiative to improve course etiquette, we have included links to videos teaching proper on course etiquette. Please take a moment to watch:

Ball Marks - How to properly repair

Bunker etiquette

See you on the course!

Joe

jvillegas@bwrc.org