Welcome to Spring

Yes it is officially spring, now we are just waiting officially for the 2018 golf season.  I know everyone, patiently or impatiently, is waiting to get that first round of golf in.  

Before that snow hit the golf course looked to be in great shape.  Once this snow melts of I would assume it to be about the same. As in previous years we will open the course when the frost is out of the greens enough to put in new hole locations. We need a good 8” of thawed ground to accomplish this. We will kept you informed as near the official season. 

Above is Ottis and I out on a little course inspection tour.  

If you really feel the urge to get out and hit the ball around, we do have temporary hole locations on the front nine.  They are typically located about 50 yards in front of the green. No carts are allowed for this, come out for a little walk and enjoy the spring air. 

As always if you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me. 

Thank You and we will see you on the course soon!

Ross

Spring

I am sure starting to enjoy how warm that sun feels.  Just hoping the temperatures continue to warm and melt some of our snow.  Not sure of any timing of the golf course opening, but we will keep you informed as the season nears.

This week Kenny, Matt and myself had the opportunity to attend that State Golf Course Superintendents Association meeting down in Sioux Falls.  As always and great meeting featuring speakers, trade show and various types networking.   This year we had four main speakers: Mike Vogt a Golf Course Consultant talked on the important of measuring success and ways of improving your success, through labor allocations and various other ways.  Michelle DaCosta is a PH.D from U of Massachusetts Amherst, she had two great presentations on minimizing winter injury and strategies to enhance summer stress tolerance.  John R. Fulling is the Superintendent at Kalamazoo CC, he is the treasurer on our National Board, his talked mainly focused on opportunities within the National GCSAA Association.  Our final speaker was Jared Hoyle from Kansas State University, his two talks were based on Managing Native areas and new herbicide options.   As you can see many great learning opportunities here, giving us a chance to re focus heading into a new season. 






WE WILL SEE YOU ON THE COURSE SOON!!
If you have any comments please feel free to contact me.
Ross

New Assistant

I would like to welcome Matt Kiefer to our team.  Matt will be our Assistant Golf Course Superintendent.  He is from the Webster area, A NSU Graduate and has been around Aberdeen since.  I am looking forward to starting the season with Matt on our team. 

Tree removal on the course is all but done for the winter.  There is still some stump grinding to accomplish.  We will continue to work on the trees around the driving range as weather permits.  When out cutting trees we remove a small cottonwood tree west of #7, no it was not the big cottonwood tree.  Upon cutting we found out why the tree was not healthy, also not very safe.  As you can see below most of the trunk is rotten inside.  Not sure of the cause of this, just glad it is gone. 

March is here and I am hoping the golf season is not too far away!

We will see you on the course soon. 

Ross