When it is too wet to mow fairways, one of our favorite pastimes is finding and fixing old drain lines.  There are very few in the fairways ...

Work is complete on the sand trap in front of the green on the 8th hole.  Many golfers have commented that the new trap and surrounding are...

Today, we began work on the sand bunker in front of the 8th green.  This area is currently "Ground Under Repair," meaning any gol...

A lot of golf course fairways have been hurting since it started raining this summer.  I decided to go straight to the source and...

The past couple weeks have not been kind to most Chicago-area golf courses.  First we had extreme heat and then lots of rain.  While some tu...

In March, the maintenance crew added a new drain under the cart path on #1 to prevent flooding and ice related problems along the path.  Alm...

As part of our continuing effort to improve drainage on the 1st hole, the maintenance crew repaired a drain under the cart path.  Last fall,...

Compared to last year, it looks like we will have only limited areas of winterkill this spring.  In 2010, a long period of snow cover and a ...

Since the snow has mostly melted, we have been assessing the health of our turf coming out of winter.  Last year, I wrote about the factors ...

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Last week, we tackled a few drainage projects on the course and by the clubhouse. We ran some drain lines to the right of #1 fairway in an ...