On The Course This Week

We have been continuing our normal spring project list this week. Mulch began to arrive on Monday for the clubhouse and halfway house landscaping. A contractor was here yesterday to clear a pile of logs and brush that had accumulated over the past two years.

With sod that was left from the project on hole 18, we sodded a few spots on the course. This is a picture of the back tee on 5. We cut out bentgrass that had crept into the bluegrass.

Our fairway nurseries have been reseeded. The drainage projects last fall used nearly all of our fairway sod.

A contractor was at the club on Wednesday and Thursday this week to repair the cap stones on the back patio. Many of the stones had become cracked or chipped and had been repaired several times before the decision to install new ones.

This is the first time we have seen this bird at the course. It has been hanging out in the pond on 17. It is a Pied-billed Grebe. It has been tough to get a picture of it because it is underwater about as much as it is above. Anytime I try to get close to take a picture it dives and swims away.