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Friday, August 19, 2011

What a storm..........

OK, so we did not really need that. I dont know how much hail we got but I know it did plenty of damage to the greens, trees, and the flowers.

Today we did the leaf harvest around the pro shop and clubhouse, cleared all cart paths, backpacked all 20 greens, backpacked all tee complexes, and blow about 1/3 of the fairways.

Pat cleaned off the roof and we had a crew putting an effort into the pool but alas it was decided that it should be closed for the season as only a handful days remained on the schedule.

We double verticut the greens and then mowed them. They look good from the fairway, but not so much when you stand on them. The hail beat them up pretty bad but dont expect recovery to take too long either. We mowed about 1/3 of the fairways today and quite a little rough.

Tomorrow the game plan is to mow the greens and topdress the greens. Mow the collars and approaches and blow off some more fairways. Sunday we are going to roll the greens and backpack blow out the bunkers and on Monday we will start chopping leaves in the rough and putting back the bunkers. We will also send out a tree crew and at least look into draining the pool (that doesnt make the pool sound very high on the priority list does it, but it is up there, for real).

The olde girl will be back in shape before you know it. Have a good riverboat Days.

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