Trimming the tree....

During the holiday lull between Thanksgiving and New Year's is a good time to wrap up all those little extra projects around the course to get ready for the impending golf season. So took the opportunity to do a holiday tree trimming....golf maintenance style. 

One of the big oak trees just off of number one tee was dying. As you can see in the picture, the normally uniform in color tree rings have a distink black layer. This is what was slowly killing the tree. 

The rot had made its way deep into the base of the tree so just trimming off the dead parts wasn't going to save it. 

Another issue with the remaining trees just off the first tee was how much the branches were starting to overhang into line of play. While the tree crew was there I had them cut a few branches off to open up the right hand side. 

Now players that hit a draw can play the ball down the right side and bring it back into the fairway. We have a few more items to wrap up next week and should be ready for "Golf Season - 2015" no problem.