Summer is Here

Well July 1st has come and gone, as well as the summer solstice. It’s hard to believe the days are already getting shorter and we are already ordering our new winter covers for this fall. The course is really starting to fill in, with all our snow mould spots virtually gone, and many of the elk urine dead spots starting to regenerate. Within the next two weeks our team will be starting aeration on areas with heavy compaction. These areas include tee and green walk-ons, and rough along cart paths. Our team is lucky in the fact that we have a continuous cart path system on both courses and that it is always cart path mandatory for golf carts everyday of the season. This definitely helps reduce compaction on the course caused by golf carts, but we still must relieve the compaction caused by foot traffic caused by over 300 players a day, per course.


It looks like we are going to have some great weather the next week, which will be a nice change. We have been lucky to escape most of the rain in June as well as the mosquitoes that accompany standing water. Being from Manitoba I am used to being eaten alive and being out here this season is a nice change. We played golf the other night and there was not one instance where a mosquito had broken my concentration. That being said I guess I didn’t have any excuses for playing so poorly and losing money to Calvin and Terry.