Dry weather continues, Introducing new Golf Course Care and Guidelines


Boomer is enjoying the cold mornings again this week, soaking in the frost here on Tuesday morning in the rough. Our warm season turf continues to endure the low humidity and cool temps with plenty of supplemental irrigation. We have our fingers crossed for some rain Saturday evening.

This week we are set to update our official Golf Course Care and Guidelines that have been run through the Green and Golf Committees. Look for some videos in the coming weeks to further explain some of the bullet points. 

Golf Course Care and Guidelines

These guidelines are simple and help protect the club’s greatest asset, the Golf Course. Playability and health of the Course, along with player satisfaction, are top priorities of the Greens and Grounds Department. We kindly ask that players take part in repairing their own damage on the Golf Course as per the guidelines below. Please also brief your guests of these guidelines prior to your round.

 Please make an effort to find and then fix your ballmarks properly by pushing the turf in toward the middle of the mark then tapping it down with your putter.

  • Replace divots when possible. If the divot is unrecoverable, please fill the void with sand.
  • After play in bunkers, please rake out footprints smoothly and place the rake outside of the bunker.
  • Keep your cart on the path as much as possible. When feasible, enter the fairway at a 90-degree angle heading to your ball position.
  • Cart traffic should be scattered through fresh turf areas and rarely concentrated into a single path. This includes pinch points on fairways, around bunkers as well as entry and exit points from the cart path.
  • Carts are allowed to travel in the rough and on the fairways, scattering their traffic paths. Steep mounds and tall grassed naturalized areas must be avoided. The geofence is active generally in a 15 yard radius around the edge of the greens.
  • Foot traffic around green entry and exits should also be spread out as much as possible.
  • Please refrain from taking your push cart on the green. Where possible, avoid taking push cart between the green and a greenside bunker.
  • Broken tees, cigarette butts, tobacco pouches, lemons, limes and the like are all considered litter on the Golf Course and should be disposed of appropriately. 


Your South Course Superintendent Micah Pennybaker taking over the latter half of the Blog this week!


This week the team took advantage of a nice crispy Monday morning with an empty course to doing some spraying around the greens and select areas throughout fairways. This herbicide application will help eradicate the Poa annua that broke through our winter pre-emergent applications.


Both courses received some Springtime love this week with a fertilizer application on all the Bermuda rough on property. If you played earlier this week you probably saw the tractor and pull behind spreader making its way around the property.  The guys put out over 17 tons of a slow-release fertilizer to help feed the rough gradually all summer long.


We continue to closely monitor all 3,000 sprinkler heads across the property and make adjustments as needed. This head for example on 9 white tee was stuck in the same position so the front corner of the tee was drying out. The head has to be dug up and replaced with a new piece. 


The new greens rollers are certainly helping keep green speeds up this week. The cold morning temps once again sent the Champion greens backwards color wise but putting quality remains adequate.


Nothing says Springtime quite like flowers! This year, James Radcliff our Landscape Manager, opted to go with a “Pink” theme for flowers. The order arrived early Monday, and the guys made a quick job of unloading and staging of almost 8,000 plants. Over the next week or so they will be working on planting all of them around the clubhouse grounds.


On Wednesday they were able to tackle a new area adjacent to the South putting green. This is going to be a nice welcoming of color to the cart staging area and entrance to the courses.


We are still working through some different color schemes on the tee markers. Our powdercoater has ordered a sample that would match the range equipment metal powdercoat color which would be similar to the marker on the left but a little darker. More to come!

Enjoying the beautiful golf weather out there, this pattern will change at some point!

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