tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82173442498074111572024-03-05T04:53:25.443-06:00Old Hickory Golf Club Course MaintenanceInformation relating to Old Hickory Golf Club and the course maintenance staff. Come take a step into our world!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-84514544201507239892017-12-08T09:32:00.002-06:002017-12-08T09:32:22.597-06:00Winter Report 12/08/2017With winter coming upon us these last few weeks, the crew has been working very hard on some projects around the course. These projects have continued our plans of getting around to repairing and renovating our bunkers. We started this process a few years ago and are continuing this trend into this winter. We have completed two greenside bunkers on hole number 6 and a greenside bunker on hole number 12. We focused on these three bunkers specifically because these bunkers were deep and in much need of repair. Our process included raising the clay floor of these bunkers to make them less deep and also clean the drainage. Below I will chronicle the process we took on hole number 12. <br />
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First we removed all of the old sand that was in the bunker, exposing the drainage as well. This particular bunker on number 12 had about 8-10 inches of sand in it. This bunker also had part of the face collapse and part of our process was to re-establish the shape this bunker was intended to have. <br />
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This picture with the stake helps show how deep this bunker was from the lip. These green and white stakes are approximately 9 inches tall. As you can see in the picture, the lip is still about 2-3 inches above the top of the stake. Because of this difference between the floor of the bunker and lip is why we are raising the floor in this bunker. The discrepancy between the lip of the bunker and the floor makes it difficult to keep the sand raked up on the edges. <br />
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Here you can the guys bringing in dirt to start shaping the collapsed face and raise the floor. We brought in roughly 12 tons of dirt into this bunker to raise the floor to the correct depth. <br />
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This is the new floor base of this bunker after the dirt work had been completed. You can see we shaped the dirt for sod to establish the shape again, as well as bringing the floor to the correct depth. After this was completed, we started to trench in the drain line. Once the drain line is installed we fill with pea gravel. <br />
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After covering the drain tile with pea gravel, and before adding our bunker sand, we installed new zoysia sod along the collapsed face. Bringing the shape of the bunker back to its original design. <br />
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Here is what the bunker looked like with new sod installed and the drain tile covered in pea gravel. The final step was to bring in the bunker sand and spread uniformly at a depth of 4-6 inches, USGA specifications. <br />
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Here is what the final product looks like! The boys worked very hard on the three bunkers we completely renovated. It took two days per bunker to compete and we are very proud of how each bunker turned out. <br />
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We thank a strong and supportive membership for always appreciating and helping to provide the materials and man power to continue to provide improvements to the golf course. <br />
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Carter DeMay, GCS<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-86108903572025330692017-08-11T10:04:00.000-05:002017-08-11T10:36:33.285-05:00Irrigation Main Line RepairStarting on Wednesday August 9th, we broke ground on repairing an 8 inch irrigation main that feeds holes 12 through 16 tee on the course. This main line is the only source of irrigation water to those holes, and was leaking terribly. We took advantage of the weather break we had in August to turn the irrigation system off to make this repair. With the help of Houska Inc., this repair was finished in 2 days and we backfilled the hole on August 10th. Below are a few images of the repair. <br />
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One of the other things that needed to be taken care of during this repair, was keeping our greens and tees watered while the irrigation system was down. With the cooperation of our clubhouse staff, we were able to use ice from one of the ice chests to put on our surfaces. Putting piles of ice down on the surfaces allows for a controlled release of water to the hotspots on these surfaces. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-21652725960856662592017-07-14T10:39:00.001-05:002017-07-14T10:42:49.398-05:00Greens Venting 7/14/17<span style="color: black;">
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<span style="color: black;">If you played golf on this gorgeous Friday in July, you may have noticed that many of the greens had aeration holes in them. We started to do a summer venting on our greens this morning. Venting is a solid tine aeration with a 1/4" tine. We do this throughout the summer to allow gas exchange to take place in the rootzone on the greens. In the high humidity and high temperatures that we get here in the St. Louis area, allowing the putting surfaces to breath makes a tremendous difference. Here is a good saying to help understand what this process means to the greens:</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-32320905789190563772017-05-06T06:07:00.000-05:002017-05-06T06:07:09.825-05:00Course Update 5/6/17<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The last week of April went out with a bang and left us with some things to clean up. The golf course was closed from Friday April 28th until yesterday May 5th at 1:00 PM. In the at time, we experienced days of rain accumulating 10" of rain. Needless to say, there was water everywhere on the golf course. Thankfully, there was not any damage. We lost a tree due to oversaturation in the soil and the tree uprooted. The tree (pictured below) was the "leaner" on number 4 that played into the golfers second shot into the green. The shot now opens up tremendously and allows for a very reachable par 5 in two shots. Clean up started middle of the week and progressed greatly, the golf course is open to play to day on both nines for the first time in a week. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-39787595693490243402017-03-23T06:46:00.000-05:002017-03-23T06:46:53.846-05:00Final Greens Aeration Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Easton is really looking forward to this update on greens aeration. He is very excited to announce that all greens are completed and have been aerated! We will be continuing to do some work on them to promote the new growth and heal the greens in from this process. There will be fertilization happening in the coming days, weather permitting, as well as more topdressing to keep the greens in a playable state and to fill any remaining holes. Many thanks to all the membership and the rest of the Old Hickory staff for the patience and cooperation with our staff. We completed aeration in three days, which is extremely quick!<br />
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Easton is VERY proud of how hard all his coworkers are working to get this springs greens aeration completed! After two days of aerating, we have completed 14 greens which includes all of the front nine greens. Today, the back nine will be closed and the crew will be finishing up the rest of the greens. We will be completed with the aerating process after today, which is three days of aerating. Thank you again to our membership for being patient and cooperative with us during the very important and much need process. Also, more thanks to the rest of the Old Hickory staff for their cooperation as well!<br />
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Easton wanted to give everyone an update on our progress with greens aeration after the first day this morning. We had a beautiful day to work on greens yesterday, setting a record high for the time of the year. The guys worked their tails off and were able to get EIGHT greens completed yesterday! We aerated and topdressed numbers: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 18. As well as the putting green by number 1 tee! Our plan for the second day of aeration is to finish the front nine greens by going to numbers 3, 7, and 8. We may also get number 17 finished if time a lots for it. Thank you to all the membership for your continued patience during this very important process, as well as, the support from the rest of the Old Hickory staff!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-72232080754870231782017-03-13T10:40:00.002-05:002017-03-13T10:40:53.924-05:00Important Notice!!! Greens Aeration will Begin on March 20!Although this past weekend didn't make it feel like it, spring arrived fairly early this year. With early arrival of spring, comes early arrival of some of our basic cultural practices here at Old Hickory. This notice to get word out about our greens aeration beginning on Monday March 20. Below is a video from the USGA on why superintendents and golf courses aerate the greens. Also in this post, is an article from the USGA giving another explanation to the importance of the process and why it needs to be done to ensure we keep good, healthy turf on our greens. <br />
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Please enjoy the literature in this post! I also hope that it helps you understand why this process is so important for the golf course!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-35028470438301281052017-03-08T08:32:00.001-06:002017-03-08T08:32:51.883-06:00Bentgrass Tee AerationOn March 6 we started aeration of our bentgrass tees. This is a very important process to remove some of the thatch layer to help promote healthy root growth. We are taking a 5/8" core at 2.5" interval that are 3" deep. We do this on tees in the spring and the fall.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-66548294580036449972017-03-03T10:18:00.000-06:002017-03-03T10:18:00.967-06:00Granular Pre-emergent Part 2With the soil temperature approaching an average of 50 degrees Fahrenheit, we have accelerated our efforts in getting our pre-emergent down. We use this machine to applicate in the majority of the golf course. Pictured: Tom Salvo and Assistant Superintendent Ryan DeGrendele.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-83803451491050713012017-03-03T10:01:00.001-06:002017-03-03T10:01:19.263-06:00Granular Pre-emergent ApplicationIt's the time of year for prevention of weeds! We've finished our sprayable pre-emergent in fairways/zoysia areas, so now we have moved to our granular in the rough/tall fescue. We start by walking our tee surrounds to better control our throw. This pre-emergent helps to control the germination of crab and goose grasses, as well as some broadleaf weeds.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-23552765908662578192017-02-27T10:50:00.000-06:002017-02-27T11:33:38.052-06:00New irrigation #7The boys are doing a great job of getting our new irrigation line put in on number 7. The old line had been removed from lake bank repairs this winter. 340 feet of new pipe and four new heads are getting put in today.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-71832237117157264482017-01-20T09:06:00.001-06:002017-01-20T09:06:59.331-06:00First Greens Mow of 2017With the projected forecast this weekend, we are mowing the greens for the first time in 2017. This will "get the fuzz off" as we like to say; giving a smoother and truer surface to putt on.<br />
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A picture of a few of our "Men of Turf" from the Employee Appreciation dinner last night. Thank you for all the hard work you guys do, not only for me but for the club itself. It definitely does not go overlooked! (Pictured from left to right: Assistant Superintendent Ryan DeGrendele, Myself, Blake Cardwell, Ron DeShon(Sarge), Genaro Garcia (G), Tom Salvo)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-18652773872225258882016-12-18T09:34:00.002-06:002016-12-18T09:34:38.345-06:00Parking Lot Treatment December 18, 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a little freezing rain and just a little snow we had to keep on our parking lot and drive in road this weekend. Mentioned in video, but a big thankful to Assistant Superintendent Ryan DeGrendele for being on call Saturday night!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790795769876818041noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8217344249807411157.post-81401244909217180482016-12-15T08:25:00.000-06:002016-12-15T08:25:56.856-06:00Bunkers! Maintenance and Repair<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Bunkers are everyone's favorite part of the golf course, right? That's my attempt at a joke, but in all seriousness if there is one thing the golfer and the maintenance guy can agree on its that bunkers suck. We hate to play out of them, and they can be costly and troublesome to maintain. One of the things that I have put a deal of focus on this past year has been repairing bunkers. In past years, we would spend 1-2 work days just pumping water out of bunkers. In a budget sense that's 32 hours of work spent on pumping out bunkers (two guys and two full days). That's taking time away from other areas on the golf course getting done or finishing up that project we started a couple days ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: large;">Because of the time spent on pumping bunkers, we changed our focus to alleviating the problem all together. We began putting a 4 man crew together to begin repairing the drainage to our bunkers, starting with the bunkers that drained the slowest. This started in early spring 2016 and is still being worked on (when you have over 150 bunkers it can be a while). For my fellow maintenance guys, you all have a method or know the method for repairing bunker drains. For the person who may not understand the process, well I'm going to run you through it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once we have exposed the drain, we removed the tile from inside the bunker and we will snake out the exit of the drain. We do this to ensure that the drainage that is outside the bunker has not become clogged with sand or other debris that may have enter the drain over time. We then replace old drain tile with new 4" perforated tile. Also, with the particular bunker in the pictures, we added 3 more herringbones to allow the water not to settle in one spot of the bunker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that there is new drain tile in the trenches, and we have added more drain tile, we will then cover the drain tile in pea gravel. We use pea gravel because it acts as kind of a barrier to the sand but is porous enough to allow the water into the drain tile. Once the pea gravel is in place we begin hauling sand to the bunker. In this particular bunker, we removed 60% of the sand in the bunker due to contamination of silt that had been washed into it from rains. We use a fine masonry sand in all our bunkers that we repair, beginning to incorporate this type of sand to all bunkers instead of just greenside bunkers. The goal we achieve is 4" of sand in the bunker uniformly. This depth of sand is ideal for playing conditions to allow the golfer to get under the ball when hitting out of the bunker. As we bring loads of sand into the bunker, we move the sand around and continually smooth and spread the sand with our bunker rake. </span></div>
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