Staff finishing the last of the bunker edging for the spring. Next up we will be adding sand into the bunkers. We try to get to a uniform 3-4" throughout the bottom and 1-2" on the signs.
This Blog was created as a way to communicate with the membership of Panther Creek Country Club on agronomic practices along with project updates as well as the ever changing day to day issues that come up at the country club
Monday, March 21, 2016
New lids for the divot boxes
The grain showing through on these Cypress box lids is very impressive. Member Glen Hodgson has done an excellent job building new lids for our par 3 sand boxes. Fine job as always from the Hodgson woodworking shop.
Monday, March 7, 2016
Close to starting
First mow of the season. Dodging rain drops. The start is near. Hopefully this week.
Friday, March 4, 2016
I lost one of the most influential mentors in my career last night. Bill Byers CGCS passed away at his home in rural Adel, Iowa.
If there is a Mount Rushmore of Golf Superintendents and turf professionals in the state of Iowa this gentlemen would be on it. Without Bill's help in the winter of 2003 giving me a chance to change my career path to managing private country clubs I wouldn't be where I am today. It only hurts to know that I never told him how much I needed a break at that time just two months after losing my father to cancer.
The article below is a small piece on Bill that is posted on the Iowa Golf Association's website highlighting Bill's induction into the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame in 2006. As I type this I remember the evening of the ceremony when my wife and I spent the night celebrating with Bill, his wife Terri and all of the other DMGCC Alumni present.
Golf Course Superintendents are a family, and the only way into that family is to live the golf course life working alongside individuals who share the same goals. He will always be a special person in my life. He will be missed by everyone who knew him.
Bill Byers has been a best friend to the golf courses at Des Moines Golf and Country Club for 48 years. When the club moved to its current site - construction on the two courses started in 1966 - Byers took a 450-acre piece of bare ground and turned it into a challenging test considered good enough to host the 1999 U.S. Senior Open. His passion for taking care of the 36-hole facility, and the unpredictable challenges that Mother Nature provided, has been recognized by a long list of achievements.
If there is a Mount Rushmore of Golf Superintendents and turf professionals in the state of Iowa this gentlemen would be on it. Without Bill's help in the winter of 2003 giving me a chance to change my career path to managing private country clubs I wouldn't be where I am today. It only hurts to know that I never told him how much I needed a break at that time just two months after losing my father to cancer.
The article below is a small piece on Bill that is posted on the Iowa Golf Association's website highlighting Bill's induction into the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame in 2006. As I type this I remember the evening of the ceremony when my wife and I spent the night celebrating with Bill, his wife Terri and all of the other DMGCC Alumni present.
Golf Course Superintendents are a family, and the only way into that family is to live the golf course life working alongside individuals who share the same goals. He will always be a special person in my life. He will be missed by everyone who knew him.
WILLIAM BYERS, Adel
Year Inducted: 2006
Category: Superintendent
Category: Superintendent
Bill Byers has been a best friend to the golf courses at Des Moines Golf and Country Club for 48 years. When the club moved to its current site - construction on the two courses started in 1966 - Byers took a 450-acre piece of bare ground and turned it into a challenging test considered good enough to host the 1999 U.S. Senior Open. His passion for taking care of the 36-hole facility, and the unpredictable challenges that Mother Nature provided, has been recognized by a long list of achievements.
Byers was named the Iowa Golf Course Superintendents' Association superintendent of the year in 1969 and 1982. He was also presented with that organization's distinguished service award in 1998. The Iowa Turfgrass Institute presented Byers with its Meritorious Service Award in 1994.
"The manner in which Bill Byers has distinguished himself makes him an ideal candidate for induction into the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame,'' said Jeff Wendel, CGCS, of Ankeny. A Certified Golf Course Superintendent since 1976, Byers is a former board member of both the Iowa Golf Course Superintendents Association and the Iowa Turfgrass Institute. "Bill has been a mentor, an innovator and a consummate professional throughout his career,'' said John Newton, CGCS, of Veenker Memorial in Ames ". He has shared his expertise with operations of every size and has made course conditions and consequently Iowa Golf better through that generosity.''
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