Golf Course Update

Installment of the new bulkhead at #7 tee will keep the complex from eroding.

The installment took 5 days to complete as our crews had to fight several heavy storms.

The bulkhead is ready for sod.

Seepage drainage installation continues on the course. Enhancements have been installed at the practice facility, 6 and 10. 

This very efficient trenching machine has a belt that lifts the trench spoils from the ground in to an awaiting trailer. The process eliminates the need for a small army of employees to shovel dirt. MacCurrach Golf is performing the work and will be transitioning to holes 3,4,12 and 15 before heading back to Jacksonville. Our scheduled completion date of July 24th  will be challenged due to the inclement weather we have been experiencing.  

Course and Grounds Update

These 2 guys were seen early morning on Saturday to the right of 11 golf hole

The Grounds Department and Matt Huggins are making some irrigation enhancements to Cherry Hill Drive. Soon, the all shoulders of the roadway at this location will be irrigated... Allowing for finer turf grooming and lees erosion into Lake Dye.

The boring machine travels under the road without causing damage to the surface. 

The boring machine in action

This guy makes those long bunker shots more difficult

The Golf Course Staff and Kyle Johnson have completed the greens aeration and are now focusing on:
1. Approach aeration
2. Tee aeration
3. Fairway aeration
4. Vertical mowing fairways and scalping
5. Sod repairs
6. Topdressing fairways
7. Bulkhead construction at #7 tee complex
8. Weed Control
9. Irrigation maintenance
10. Fertilizing the course

Look closely, I saw this owl a month ago to the right of #2 golf hole

Armin vertical mowing #13 fairway

GCM Employee Nelson, vertical mowing at #2 fairway

Matt Huggins and the grounds staff recently installed new grass under some of the Live Oaks at the Main House. It looks great.

The Grounds staff has the rose garden at main house in top shape.

The finely manicured lawns and gardens at the Main House

One of Ford Plantation's several mature Live Oak stands

This bird was nesting on the dyke road next the back nine of the golf course