This crazy weather is playing with the maintenance schedule this week.  We will continue to Bush Hog as much as we can along with doing any course improvements that the weather allows!  Lets' all hope the snow goes away!  Kevin

Picture from yesterday evening

From near 17 green looking down 18

Thurs. 2-20-14

Thanks to the high winds for the last two days we are going to be back to 90 degrees with the carts!  Going to be a great day to come out and play!  Kevin

Rain likely this morning but looking great this for this afternoon.  Still cart path only today!  Kevin

Season Prep Has Started

We have started prepping for the up coming golf season.  Today we are going to start spraying the rye and POA (Annual Blue Grass)  out of the warm season Bermuda Grass.  This allows the desirable Bermuda Grass to be healthy and strive with no competition all summer.  Also working on things like new tee markers and  course accessories.

Look out for the painters!  We are going to start the turf painting at RNK on the 3rd of March.  We are scheduled to paint at Stonehouse this Monday!

As for the weather,  after a little rain/ice this morning the rest of the week looks like some great golfing weather!

We are open today with a small delay and are cart path only.

Kevin

Back Open!

We are going to be open, cart path only starting tomorrow!  Kevin

GREENS AERIFICATION!!!

SPRING DATES ARE SET

Brickshire  Feb. 24th and 25th

Royal New Kent   May 19th and 20th

Stonehouse May27th and 28th

Here is a great link to help you understand why this necessary evil is done! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va98sIUEjFw

We are NOT ready for more snow!  It's going to be cold but Wends. may be your last chance for golf for a while!  Kevin

Tree removal on 16 today

Removed the trio of dead trees between 14 and 16.

After shot, clean and clear.

Please keep carts out of native areas!

The native grasses in some areas throughout the course are being bush hogged. There are stumps, irrigation boxes, sink holes and other factors that could lead to injury or a severe cart accident on the course. We ask that all golfers please stay out of the native areas while driving to avoid hurting themselves or totaling a cart. This is for your own safety please stay out.

Good Morning,  It's going to be a cold one but were open to play!  Hope today is going to be the last day of cart path only!  Kevin

Finishing five

In the photo above, new sand was added back to the fairway bunker on number five following reshaping and clearing drain lines. The fabric near the lip of the bunker is added to help hold sand on steep slopes. Another project that can be checked off the list. The key to progression is consistency and hard work.

Important information for 2/5/2014

We are open for play today, however do to recent precipitation the cart path only rule is in effect. Hope everyone enjoys their round at RNK!

2-4-14

Frost/ Ice Delay this morning should be gone about 9:00! Course is open with cart path only today. Greens are rolled and cups changed waiting on you to get here!

Update

It has been a crazy four months here but we are working hard to open this spring with many changes.  The weather has not been the best for getting all the things we want to done on our list.  We started with some “BIG UGLYS” such as #10 fairway bunker.  We have removed, added to and reduced the fingers and slopes to ease the extreme maintenance of this one bunker. Our goal is to keep the integrity of the bunker but reduce the maintenance of it. We also have started a bunker project on the right side of number five fairway.  There were two bunkers next to each other, one main drained worked and one didn’t.  The easiest way to fix it was to make one bunker and redo the drainage to go to the open drain. We have started bush hogging all 90 acres of native as well.   If the weather breaks and we can get there our next project is to make some major improvements to the driving range.  We will be fixing the drainage and creating target greens and lesson area for Lester and Brett.

Kevin McIntire GCS

Royal New Kent Golf Club

Were OPEN

We back open but very wet.  With 100% chance of rain tomorrow it even going to be more wet.  I don't like cart path only but it's our only choice at this point!  Hope to see your out this week!  Kevin