Rain gauge had a bad month!

The GRAND total for rain at RNK in the month of September (Drum roll)  1.6 inches!  If you have been to RNK lately you notice the extreme low pond level.  We have gone to greens only at this point to make it through the until we get some kind of hurricane or massive snow melt. If we get a good hard storm, for every inch of rain we get about a foot of our pond filled back up. Cooler night temps are helping reduce water use but not helping on our root development.

We also have started Bush Hogging some of the tee complexes to knock down some of the out of control native areas catching tee shots 10 feet off the tee.

The collars will be finished getting their yearly over seeding,  We are trying to toss a new curve at the collars for next year. we added 20% of the seed is a Low Mow Heat Tolerant Blue Grass.  Seed count wise, the seed is about 50% Rye and 50% Heat Tolerant Blue Grass! I'm excited to see the result of the change!  On the bad side, the collars will be kind of a mess jungle for the next couple weeks.

Work continues on sodding the edges of the bunker on 10 fairway as well when weather allows.  the over all plan for the bunker is to make it a FLAT BOTTOM bunker, except, for the two big faces.  the two bug faces are going to get their slops reduced to be able to maintain them with our bunker rake machine.  Right now our main focus is getting the sod down and rooted before it checks out and head dormant.

I also want to give a shout to Carl.  I have no idea what he goes through on a daily basis, but I know he works hard to get the three superintendents the things we need to be as successful as we can be!

Super busy here as you can tell, Kevin

pictures of 10 bunker work

It never fails, as soon as we start work back in the bunker on number 10 fairway we get rain!  We did get a great start on it yesterday.  Here are some pictures of us bringing don the faces to make the bunker a flat bottom bunker.

WEEK OF SEPT 22

This week we are changing focus a little bit.  We are going to be more sod work. Today we cut out all the bad spots on the awful white tee on #7.  Scheduled to re-sod it in the morning.  This tee will be closed for a couple weeks while the sod takes.  Better bring a little longer club on that hole!  We also are going to repair that ugly wash out mess between the white and black tee on seven as well.  We also are going to work hard on the edges of the big bunker on 10.  we are quickly loosing our warm season sod window.  The plan is to make the bunker a flat bottom bunker except the two faces in the corner.  We are just going to flatten the slops on them to hinder the washouts and be able to maintain them with the sand pro instead of the skidsteer loader.  We are going to try to pull off all of this while preparing for two course closing size outings Thursday and Friday!  Yea, we got a heck of a week planned!  Kevin

#12 is all cleaned up

After 3 grueling days, we finished edging bunkers and a general over all cleaning up of hole 12.  It came out AWESOME!!!

2000

We hit 2000 site visits this week!  Keep tuning in to get info on the course!  Kevin

Things as normal as they can get!

We moving right along with sprucing up the place for fall play.  We are working on the bunkers on 12 green.  Edging bunkers that have not been touched in a few years is a time consuming task.  It will take three, four at times employees 3 days to restore the bunkers on just this one hole.  We are adding back some of the flash (faces) of sand to help pull peoples eyes back down to this great par three and stop looking at the town homes.  We also hope to put up a shield of some kind of trees and evergreen mix to shield off some of the town homes this fall.  Same for the back drop of 13 and 14.  We are also putting some effort in fixing the entrances and exits off the fairways in the next couple days as well.  Have a great week!  Kevin

This Week

We are spending this week getting a lot of housekeeping things done getting ready for the upcoming outing season and fall package season.  Mulching and trimming clubhouse and edging more bunkers are on the agenda.  Along with those we will be verti-cutting and topdressing the greens trying to speed up and smooth up the greens for a little better role. Have A Great Week!  Kevin