Finish Line in Sight

Our First tarp put down this season

We are currently into winter shutdown mode at the Kananaskis Country Golf Course. Blowout was completed a week ago and we are currently into the process of putting up protection for our greens and tees. On our greens we use an edging, bubble wrap, impermeable tarp, elk fence combination that I will get into more depth in my next post. On our tees we only use elk fencing to protect the surfaces. Calvin has completed all our fungicide applications on tee and greens and will get into fairways next week.

Derk, Teal, and Jana Putting up tee fences

We are getting into mornings with heavy frost so we can’t be out on the course first thing in the morning, so we are slowly cleaning up the yard and detailing the equipment until the frost burns off. We are well ahead of schedule for this time of the year I and I anticipate we will have the course ready for winter in a weeks time at the latest. The crew is doing a great job of staying motivated, as we have turned greens tarping into a bit of a friendly competition between James’ team and my own team.

I really enjoy this time of the season as I get the chance to work side by side with our crew again and have a few laughs as we work towards our goal of closing up the course by next week.

Hopefully we can have a few more weeks of nice weather so that everyone can get their respected courses closed up before the snow flies.

Everything needed to be put on or around 18 Kidd green