Article on Course Maintenance and Course Accessibility

Excellent article from the USGA regarding maintenance practices and golfer accessibility to the course and the ways this can be balanced for the benefit of everyone.


http://www.usga.org/course-care/forethegolfer/they-need-time-to-get-it-done.html

Red Stake Reminder

I am hoping the weather changes soon so we can start playing golf. We are starting to clean up the course and get ready for the season. Some of the early season work on the course includes edging and adding sand to bunkers as well as adding some fresh sod to the edges on #2 and #10 greens. We are also starting to redo a couple of bunker edges that have become distorted through years of edging and wear.

I wanted to take this opportunity to hit on a practice that has become very important with the turf health around greens and tees. We will be using the red stakes for cart enter/ exit points from fairways again this year. There will be a stake at the start of the fairway telling you it is ok to enter the fairway with your cart and a second stake close to the green letting you know when to exit the fairway and drive back to the path. I feel that throughout the time we’ve used these reminder stakes we have had a large majority of player’s carts obeying the red stakes as they played their rounds of golf. I appreciate everyone doing their part in keeping carts on the paths especially at the greens so that any chip shots around the putting surface can be made without sitting in a cart track or on dirt due to cart traffic. Obeying the red stakes will make for a much better overall product out there.

I hope to see you all on the course very soon.