Fall Update

The golf season is starting to slow down, but the Grounds Staff and I continue to forge ahead with a continued sense of urgency to complete many tasks before the rain turns to snow. Some of the current initiatives include:

• Championship tee construction on # 7, with a target completion date around Thanksgiving

• Deeptine aeration and topdressing of the greens

• Winterization of the irrigation system
• Annual bulb planting for the spring
• Leaf clean-up across the entire grounds
• Late fall fertilization of the roughs
• Herbicide applications to all rough areas
• Final fungicide applications to the to greens and tees
• Final mowing of all playing surfaces

Reminders-

• Due to the freezing temperatures the bathrooms on the golf course are closed and winterized for the season
• Please check with the Proshop for frost and freeze delays
• For daily updates on course conditions follow us on Twitter @pobrienhpgcc

Thank-you,

 

Pat O'Brien

Grounds Suprintendent

 

Member Improvements-update

The grounds staff continues to move forward with tee renovations on holes 2, 5 and 7. Last week, the staff finished the forward tee on 5 located about half way down the hillside on the rightside of the path.

5 forward tee

Renovations are in full swing on #2 with an additional championship tee being added along with realigning and reshaping the existing tees. The progress has been slowed with the wet weather, this time of year can be a challenge with construction based upon the dynamic weather patterns. The staff and I will finish the final construction project of the season with the addition of a championship tee on 7 that will play roughly 180 yards from the back. We hope to have the 7th tee completed by the end of November.

-Wet conditions near the new championship tee

 

-Leveling and realignment of the tees on 2

 

- New championship tee on 2 being sodded

Thank-you,

Pat O'Brien

Grounds Superintendent