Happy New Year!!! The off season is going very well so far
for the Grounds staff. A lot of the winter work is nearing completion and I’m
confident we will be ready to go once the weather clears up for spring. The
winter though very cold has actually been a nice change from the past couple of
years. With a good strong freeze in the ground I’m hoping we’ll see a lot fewer
insects, and weeds plus I hope we also get a nice fracking of the soil during
the thaw which will help with root development in the spring. Our moisture
levels however are still concerning to me. The ponds are very close to full on
the course but if anybody has been by Lake Springfield it is several feet below
full pool. I’m hoping in the near future that we start to turn this trend and
begin picking up more rain events especially once the course comes out of
winter dormancy.
We have something
exciting coming up for one of our staff members. Jaime Stash has been chosen by
the TORO Company to participate in a week long tournament and education
opportunity beginning on Sunday, Jan. 21st and running until Sunday,
Jan 28th. After being nominated he was selected as one of 25 up and
coming Assistant Superintendents nationwide to take part in the all-expenses
paid week long Farmers Insurance Open PGA Tour event in San Diego, California.
After I started looking at the list of courses being represented I am honored
to see Panther Creek Country Club recognized with some of the most legendary
and revered courses in the country. It
will be a lot of fun for Jaime and it will allow him to reach out to piers at
other clubs and gleam information that hopefully he can bring back to Panther
Creek for implementation. His week will comprise of getting up and on a bus by
4:15am, working and staying at the course all day as a guest of TORO and Torrey
Pines and then return to his hotel following the afternoon work shift around
6:00pm. This is quite an honor for Jaime and I hope anyone on Twitter can
follow his updates during the week. Once he returns home he will be posting a
tournament wrap-up for the Turf Blog as well.
Have a great week!! I hope to catch up with everyone very
soon at the Annual Meeting on January 30th.
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