april 12, 2013 newsletter
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April 12, 2013
Volume 1, Issue 4Remsen Golf Course Grounds
UpcomingEvents:
• Course
Opening-Stay
Tuned
• Men’s Golf
League-April 24
& Women’s Golf
League May13th
• 3 Man Best
Shot-May 5th
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Ryan [email protected]
712-541-4739
What a different a year
can make. Seems as if
everyone has been saying
this the past few weeks,
as winter is not giving up
this spring. The courseopened for a brief 5 days
until this last winter storm
came through and
dumped a few inches of
rain, sleet, ice, and snow
the past 3 days. It does
look like this will be the
last of winter, which is
always a plus, but from
the models I have seen, it
doesn’t look like it’s going
to warm up for a while. As
Slow Start to the Season
Changes in 2013
As you all have been out
already or start to golf in
the next few weeks, you
will notice quite a few
changes this year already.
We have already gone to
the red, white, blue
system for our flags,
allowing the golfer to know
the pin location from a
distance. There is an
explanation of this on the
website at
www.ryanmgalles.shutterfl
y.com , then click on
Remsen GC. I have also
installed the yardage
blocks in the fairways,
replacing the sticks we
had previously used. The
color codes will be the
always keep posted to
both the Facebook and
Twitter accounts as to
when we will open back
up, hopefully for good this
time. A big positive with allof this wet weather
recently, is that we have
finally gotten the much
needed moisture we have
lacked the past few years.
It didn’t take long on
Tuesday for our irrigation
pond to fill up. We did
record 1.25 inches of rain
on Tuesday, before all of
the hail and sleet that
night along with 2-3
inches of snow Thursday.
This colder weather has
allowed me to accomplish
a few other tasks on the
golf course you have seen
along with a few more tocome in the near future,
as I am not busy with the
irrigation system and
mowing quite yet.
If you haven’t already,
don’t’ forget to pay your
membership and league
dues to Russ. Men’s
league starts in a few
weeks on April 24, which
will be a fun night,
followed by the first night
of league on April 30/May
2. Women’s league will
start on May 13 this year.same other than the
addition of a 250 yard
marker (Gold-250, Blue-
200, White-150, Red-100).
Another change that is
near completion is cutting
around all the irrigation
heads. This was done for
two reasons, the first is to
allow those heads to work
correctly and the second
is that during the course of
the season we will be
adding yardage to the
heads. With the heads
being trimmed it will allow
the golfer to see the
heads from a distance to
get the correct yardage for
their upcoming shot. I
have also been doing
quite a bit of spring
cleanup throughout the
course. We did remove 4
trees throughout the
course, limb up some of
the evergreens on #5 &
#8, along with cleaning
out the leaves in each of
the landscaped tee boxes.I have also been working
on putting a fresh coat of
paint on our tee markers
and ball washers, prior to
opening this past week.
Finally this past
Wednesday, April 3, I put
the first cut on the greens,
tees, and fairways;
greening these areas up a
bit by removing the dead
tissue from the winter.
7/28/2019 April 12, 2013 Newsletter
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April 12, 2013
Volume 1, Issue 4Remsen Golf Course Grounds
UpcomingEvents:
• Course
Opening-Stay
Tuned
• Men’s Golf
League-April 24
& Women’s Golf
League May13th
• 3 Man Best
Shot-May 5th
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Follow Us:
Blog
Photostream
_______________
Ryan Galles
712-541-4739
Over the next few weeks
in April and the start of
May, we have several
projects improving the
course. The first project
that will begin thisweekend, will be the
reconstruction of both of
our bunkers. Both bunkers
are heavily contaminated
with silt and clay, locking
them up and not allowing
water to penetrate through
to our drainage system in
both bunkers. This locking
up of the sand is the main
reason why the bunkers
are so hard and
unplayable. Over the nextfew weeks, we will begin
the process of digging
both of them out and
reshaping them in
necessary. Once dug out,
we will check to ensure
the drainage system
works. Upon that, we will
be edging the bunker
creating a crisp and clean
edge followed by filling the
bunkers back in. There
will be a volunteer sign-upsheet to help with filling
the bunkers back in as we
will need a few people
packing down the sand
and raking it in evenly,
while we have our
truckster
loading/unloading sand
into both bunkers. Once
the prep work for the
bunkers is complete we
pril/May Projectswill have a date set to
complete the project. If
anyone is interested in
helping in this process just
contact me. We will also
be spiking the fairways,yet in April, similar to
aerification, without the
mess. Spiking the
fairways will allow water to
penetrate to the deeper
roots along with allowing
oxygen to get to these
roots too. This will
improve both the health
and vigor of the turf,
promoting growth early in
the season, as we have
many areas throughoutour fairways that have
been struggling. This will
be followed by a spring
application of fertilizer in
mid-May providing a full
pound of nitrogen to the
plant, also promoting
growth of the turf and
helping it green up. Finally
the last project, of this
spring, will be the startup
of the irrigation system
towards the end of themonth. I will be adjusting
the run times on each
head along with adjusting
some of the heads as the
irrigation system was a
concern at the end of last
year. I did notice that the
greens heads didn’t have
any tail nozzles, watering
areas closer to the heads.
This would explain the
dead spots near a lot of
the irrigation heads, as the
head of the sprinkler
shoots further, with the tail
picking up the turf closer to the head. The other
concern I saw was that
the irrigation system
wasn’t being ran long
enough to supply an
adequate amount of water
to the turf. I will be
adjusting this so that the
fairways/tees run 18
minutes per head and the
greens 15 minutes per
head. With this addition of
time to the system, it willneed to begin around
dusk in order for it to be
complete by starting time
the next morning. If you
are out golfing right before
dark, just be aware of this.
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