I am happy the
weather changed and we are finally able to play some golf. The week upcoming
doesn’t look promising with Mother Nature but, soon the sun will be shining and
we can resume our spring. We are continuing to clean up the course and get
ready for the season. Some of the early season work on the course includes
edging the bunkers as well as starting to trim up all of the broken branches
from the ice this past winter.
A spring project that was completed this past week before
the course opened was the new concrete approaches on bridges #5 and #6. This is
a picture of the approach on #5 which was particularly rough due to large
amounts of water over the past twenty years eroding the dirt from underneath it
therefore compromising the integrity of the concrete. Before the new approach
was installed we drilled steel rods into the existing path and bridge abutment.
This will help in the future to negate that problem from occurring again. We also
stuffed all of the concrete after it was demolished into the cavity under all
three approaches that were rebuilt. The reason for this work to be done while closed
is the fact that it needed three to four days curing time before carts could
resume usage. It turned out very well and I hope it goes as long as the bridge
lasts.
The grounds
department has been exploring new ways to communicate with all of the members in
the past couple of months. We have started a new turf blog along with Twitter
and Instagram accounts. Our goal is to give the members of Panther Creek a more
up to date look at projects and work we are doing along with putting faces with
the names of the staff in the grounds department. We will be using all three
lines of communication on a regular basis so if you would like, those are
places you can go for information.
Turf Blog: http://pcccgrounds.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @PantherGrounds
Instagram: @PantherGrounds
I hope to see you all on the course very soon,
Greg Willman
546-1469
