Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Cart barn lighting update

I posted a few weeks ago about some new lighting I had installed around the cart barn to increase the night time visibility from the parking lot to the south breezeway entrance.  Here's a picture of how it turned out.  The visibility is much improved!

Small improvements add up

I am always trying to improve something because with a golf course you are either moving forward or you are moving backwards, there's no standing still.  One are that has always been itching for improvement is the cart parking area on 13 green.  The building that you have to park next to isn't exactly the most attractive think to look at. 


So with improvement in mind, I fired up the excavator and got to work.  The plan was to move the cart path away from the building and install some landscaping to hide the building.  The first job was to remove the existing asphalt material and the sod.  Once the old cart path was removed, new aggregate material was hauled in and installed in the new cart path location.

 
 
Add some landscaping around the building and here's what the new cart parking area looks like now
 
 

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Putting green update

Today after being mowed

The day after

It's 6:30 a.m. and I'm waiting on the sun to come up over the course. So far my initial observations is that it's not bad. We have some small debris to clean up and then its time time to get caught up on the mowing.

What is incredible this morning is how fast the clouds are moving, even the really high cumulous clouds. The breeze is strong from the South, pushing everything along at 10-15 mph. The sun is just barely beginning to break through to the west coast and it looks like its going to be a red sky morning.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Sweat Equity

Even Tony is getting in on some dusting, cleaning and sprucing up action.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

We've been busy...

As everyone knows, we are closed this week for aerification.  Believe it or not, I hate aerification as much as golfers do.  It is so disruptive, but so necessary that just like you guys, me and my staff just grit our teeth and get 'r done.  The good news is that mother nature must be happy with the course as she is blessing us with perfect weather, super hot and super dry!  It's one thing to make the mess, it's another to clean it up.  If Mother Nature gives you a bunch of rain during the "making the mess" part the cleaning up part becomes excruciating.

Since we have had such great weather, the processes of aerification week are moving very quickly.  In two days the crew has aerified 3/4 of the course and vertical mowed just over half.  Much like any big project, aerification week is a little slow to start as there are so many things that are timing dependant.  Also like other large projects, once the beast gets rolling you'd better stay on top of it so it doesn't get off course.  Needless to say, me and the assistants put a lot of miles on our carts running around checking on everything and everyone during this time.

I've also got some other really great stuff going on this week in the clubhouse.  Today I had electricians installing some recessed lighting around the cart barn to increase night time parking lot safety.  Instead of having the one little flood light on the side of the wall, now there are recessed lights in the soffit on the parking lot side, as well as the end facing the clubhouse.

I had all the old, faded hand railing painted around the clubhouse


I have a carpet and upholstery cleaner in to do all the chairs, wall dividers and flooring


I have a contractor in the kitchen working on some wall repair where there was some minor water damage.



I was even able to get a little paint touch up done in the golf shop. 


 


The whole team at CCN has been hard at work making improvements and repairs to get ready for the upcoming season.  A lot of it you'll never see, like how Chef Todd was able to increase his efficiency and storage capabilities by replacing the old shelving in the coolers, or how nice the cleaned up bad storage room and its newly painted floor looks, or the new outside lighting installed for the bag guys when they get here at 6 a.m. and are trying to load the day's bags onto cart in the dark.  There's lots going on all over the place, we've ALL been really busy and it's only Tuesday!


Monday, August 13, 2012

Extra, extra...read all about it

A few months ago I was contacted by a magazine called "Club and Resort Business" about the Club's clock installation on the driving range.  I just got my copy in the mail and wanted to share with everyone the wonderful story that was written about the Club in this national trade publication.

Here's the link   The Final (Time) Piece

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Level Headed

Here is picture of 13 white tee after it has been stripped and material added to the area that had settled. The tee will be leveled, sodded and grown in so the teeing ground is ready for season.