Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from the Maintenance Staff at Moccasin Creek!!!

I hope you find time to enjoy this Christmas Season with family and friends. 

Thank You for supporting Moccasin Creek this season!

Ross

December Golf Course Update

The nice layer of snow we started the month with has now melted off!!  The ground is only slightly froze, this allowed all the moisture to soak in. This is a good thing, we do not need any ice this time of year. 

The abnormally warm weather has allowed to go out on the course and cut down some dead/unhealthy trees. The trees we are cutting down are the hybrid cottonwoods, they are getting close to the end of there life expectancy. There is only a few we will be cutting down on the course itself, the rest will be around the driving range. We will continue our tree work as Mother Nature allows. 

Above is a tree we removed near the Green tee on first hole. 

If you have any comments or questions please feel free to contact me. 

Enjoy the Holiday Season!!!

Ross

First snow

The first snow of the year has arrived. At the course we were in the 6-7" range, of wet snow. This was a good thing for the golf course, a nice blanket of snow to protect all the grass plants. Now we will wait and what Mother Nature has in store for us the rest of the winter. 

Even though we have a nice coating of snow, we DO NOT ALLOW SNOWMOBILES ON THE GOLF COURSE!!!  Snowmobiles can cause severe damage to our turf grass. So please stay off.

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact me. 

Ross

Please Use Temporary Green's

Effective today we are going to the temporary green and hole locations. The forecast is looking cooler and not so much for golf. So we have decided it was time to close the regular greens. 

We close the regular green's to help ensure we have alive grass come next spring. There is no guarantee, but keeping traffic off the dormant frozen turf is a definite help in the health of the turf grass plant.  This will give us the best chance of great green's next spring. 

So if there is a nice day, in the 40's or 50's, come out and enjoy your course. 

Please use the temporary green's!!

Thank you for your support and another great golf season!!!

Ross & The Entire Maintenance Staff

#14 Fairway

#14 fairway in July!!

#14 Fairway

Just gojng through the pictures from this season, this picture always catches my eye.  It is of #14 fairway, it was taken the end of April.  How soon we can forget how much grass we really lost last winter.  All our winter prep work is done, I hoping this winter season will be more kind to us!!

Have a great day!!

Ross

Top Dressing Green's

Today we are top dressing the greens with sand. Applying sand top dressing this time of year is a very beneficial in protecting the crown of the plant through the winter. This is especially true when we have an open cold winter. 

We will leave the flag sticks In for now, but according to the forecast we will switch to temporary hole locations very soon. 

It has been a great fall for golf, I hope you have found time to enjoy your golf course. 

If you have any comments please feel free to contact me   

Ross