New hitting station update

Part one of the new hitting station project is complete. Last week the concrete pad base for the new pads was installed. Now we are just waiting on the mats and paver bricks. Both items have been orders, but are still being manufactured. 

In this pic we are laying out the tee with mason's line to make sure everything is exactly how we want it. 

Trevor was on site to make sure things were going perfectly. The contractor used my sod cutter to cut all the sod. Then his guys came in behind the cutter and removed it all. 

All formed up and ready for concrete. 

Concrete, or "Mud" as it is called by contractors, is here. 

While we wait for the rest of the other projects materials to show up my staff will be busy with other parts of the project. We still need to install the drainage and do some dirt work to get ready for the paver bricks. 

Rain gauge overflow

In case you've missed it...the entire southern part of Florida has been swallowed by a massive storm. The club has received over 5 inches of rain and it's still raining. To give you an idea of how much water that is, imagine watching Niagara falls for 11 seconds and all that water dumping on the CCN neighborhood and course! 

Teaching class on blogging today at PGA NATIONAL

Health check up time

A few weeks ago I had the USGA Agronomist in to do our annual summer check up.  This is a bi-annual endeavor to make sure all of the necessary maintenance practices / steps are being done on the golf course for maximum playability.  Below is the link to the report.  Please take some time and read up on how your golf course is doing.

2014 Summer check up with the USGA

Aerification week....watch the short 1 minute video to catch a glimpse inside the chaos

Aerification week, July 2014 - The Country Club of Naples

100 day war, 2nd assault

Today the weather was kinder than yesterday. Although it threatened several times early and then late, no rain fell at CCN. Which was good as we had work to make up from yesterday's weather disaster. I'm happy to say that my staff kicked butt. We finished today's work and made up for yesterday!

This week's projects.

July 1 starts a new fiscal year and I am wasting no time in setting out to accomplish this year's goals. On of those goals is to get all of the huge ficus hedges around the property trimmed. This is no easy task due to the size of the hedges. 

The key to getting a job done right is using the right tool for the right job. Fortunately I know the right guy to trim the hedges. I hired a citrus groove trimming company that has made their own ficus hedge trimming machine. This machine is all custom built so that the operator can manipulate the trimking head 360 degrees on all three axis. The machine does in a week what would take 3-4 months by hand.