Thursday, January 12, 2012
Yesterday afternoon Tim and I meet with David Hay, our Regional Superintendent to discuss course conditions and our plan going forward. We discussed how that a couple of years ago the management team, along with input from the golf committee and board of governors, decided that we should reduce the amount of seed thrown in the outlying roughs and move it into the fairways where it would be much better utilized. It was also decided to do the same with fertilizer. It was discussed at that time, and everyone was aware, that if we had a heavy frost in late November that these outlying rough areas would be yellow with dormant Bermuda until sometime around the third week of January when the days started getting longer and the soil temperatures started warming up. But it was agreed upon because it would render the course much more playable during the coldest part of the winter. We are all aware how it makes the course look aesthetically and this is something that is currently under review. This is one of the reasons that we had the architect look at the course and map out areas outside the field of play where we could possibly eliminate seeding in the future and still have the course look somewhat aesthetically appealing. These are tough times and there are many factors to be considered, one of which is member satisfaction.
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