Course Update

Conditions here at Creekmoor continue to be damp and wet. We received .6" of rain on Tuesday night, and then received another .25" of rain last night. Needless to say course conditions are very wet. Carts will once again be on cart paths today and hopefully the golf course will start to dry out in the next day or so. We are going to be spiking the greens this morning in front of the mowers. This process is necessary due to the fact that we have received so much moisture over the last couple of days and the greens need to dry out a bit. The spiking will help speed this process up while helping the green take in some oxygen which will continue to help the greens be at their top form. Bunker work is also going to be a high priority today after the series of rain the last couple of days. My staff also is working on a few projects around the golf course. We are currently working on some cleanup work in the creek beds on #4 and #8. We are just cleaning out some of the brush and undergrowth that has built up over this season. Another project we are working on is repairing the bridge on #12. With all the rain we have been having the water in the creek has started to erode the soil underneath the bridge on #12 and could cause us some real issues if we left it unattended. Our goal is to refill the area with some topsoil and then stack rock around it to try and hold off the erosion from happening. We have had good luck with this process on another one of our bridges so hopefully it works this time as well. The rough has really slowed down on it's growth over the last couple of days due to the cooler temperatures. We mowed all the rough, green banks, and tee banks on Monday and Tuesday and I don't feel like we will have to mow again this week due to the lack of growth we are getting right now. If temperatures turn around we may have to go back to our typical mowing schedules. Hope everyone has had a great week.