April has been a hit and miss on the weather, one day its
sun tan weather and the next day we are in our insulated overalls. The good
news is that we’ve had enough warm days for the courses to green up and for the
dormancy look of winter to go away. All three courses have applied a bulk
fertilizer application and with the recent rains and some warm weather we will
be in full mowing mode in the next couple of weeks.
The Legacy Hills bunker project is being wrapped up as I
write this and besides some clean-up around the shop area it is all but
finished. The only remaining signs of work are on holes #17 and #18 where we
still have silt fencing around the bunker surrounds that were sodded. That silt
fence will remain there for the next two weeks until the sod is established. If
we feel the sod is ready sooner than that we will pull it out before the two
week period. Thank you to all of our golfers who have been patient throughout
this process.
The first quarter projects that we have in place should wrap
up in the next two weeks and extinguish the 30k that was put into the 2013
operating budget for golf course improvements. The tree trimming on #6 may take
an additional week depending on the tree company’s schedule.
The Playability committee also met this month and completed
the Spring tour of Cowan Creek. During
this tour we also looked at some of the safety items that were brought up in
the Safety Committee’s report from last year. Two notable items were some large
drop offs near the bathrooms on #13 and #17 at Cowan Creek which have since
been addressed. Next month we will be working on some of the other drop offs
next to the paths and fixing them with either DG or with some kind of rock work
as we did on hole #11 at White Wing.
