Early Summer Update

            Well the summer weather is finally here for us! The consistent rain has been hard on everyone and everything and I really hope we are past it now.

       We are getting closer all the time to having the flooded valley holes open. The grow-in and maturing of the holes is coming along quite well now and we are getting closer to being back on track. We will have all the excavation and trenching completed today on all of the bunkers that were flooded and will hope to complete all the new bunker drainage and renovation by next weekend. 

      We have all of our students working for the year now so it has allowed us to get at a few jobs that have been putting off. Bunker edging on the entire course has already been completed and the students are now down on the flooded holes to completing the bunker reconstruction of all bunkers and the completion of cartpaths on those holes. Once these jobs are done we will be very close to being ready.

A bunker after being edged

        I would like to thank everyone for their patience with us this spring. Unfortunately, we had a few areas that had suffered severely from the harsh winter and this had a negative effect on the course. To top things off the excessive moisture and lack of heat has made recovery for these areas near impossible this spring. With the improvement in the weather now, all of these areas are recovering or have already recovered and we expect they will be back to 100% soon. This was a harsh reality for a lot of our province this year as overall the condition of most golf courses has not been as good as hoped after such a difficult winter and spring. 

This is what the damaged areas have looked like

      The next month will be very busy for as us we hope to complete every job on the flooded holes and to have them open for play. After that we can carry on with the many other planned projects for the rest of the golf course. 

Hole 15