Aerification

We started aerifying greens yesterday afternoon at the big putting green and the top chipping green.  Aerifying is going pretty smoothly so far even today after we received 2 inches total rain yesterday and today.  Here you can see us aerifying the big putting green yesterday.

Friday Morning

Greens Aerification recovery looks pretty good so far. The cooler temperatures we've experienced set us all back a little bit, but with warmer temps in the forecast, I expect the holes left on the greens to fill in nicely. Pictured is the small putting green looking towards the back of the driving range. It's a nice, foggy, kind of cool Friday morning here at TCCC.

New fairway mower

Come out to Trophy Club Country Club today and check out our new Toro Fairway Unit. Stop by the Pro Shop and guess how much the unit cost and if your guess comes closest to the actual cost associated with this unit then we will give the winner a dozen PROV1s!

Aerification of the Whitworth course will be done this coming Tuesday and Wednesday.  Some of you may notice that we haven't achieved complete recovery yet on the Hogan greens.  We haven't had the best weather for this time of year and it hasn't been conducive to growing bermudagrass with the cooler temperatures.  We are almost a week behind because of the cooler weather but once we reach temperatures where the high and low for a single day add up to 145-150 degrees, we will start to see the recovery we've all expected.  We are confident that once we start seeing warmer temperatures we will be much better off.

Aerification of the greens is right around the corner so everyone needs to plan accordingly.  We will be aerifying the Hogan course first on April 16-17 and will aerify the Whitworth on April 30-May 1.  The greens have had a good start to the year already and we look forward to the contributing to overall experience of our Members by planning for a good Aerification that runs smoothly.

Lately we have been in improvement mode and have greatly improved areas around the club like the circle area by the driving range, the stonework next to the cartpath on #8 whitworth and have submitted new permits to build a new sign in the front entrance to the club.  A key area that needed to be improved was behind #1 of the Whitworth course.  This area has been part of our plan for a while now to greatly improve. Last week we installed a new flower bed featuring the clubs new logo in the form of a "T"and "C" together meaning Trophy Club.  So far the project looks great and we will add irrigation to it this week and plants will soon follow.  Below is how the project went and the steps we took to create it from before pics to after pics.

The area behind #1 Whitworth was bare because of shade from all the oak trees and from drainage runoff.  We decided to dress the area up by first adding a flower bed featuring stone work showing off new logo.

The flower bed is coming together.  We brought in big boulders to form the flower bed perimeter and added soil to raise it up from the surrounding area.

Our head foreman, Emilio, and one of the Whitworth crew Members, Honorio, are adding stone to the "C" of the "TC".  Its really starting to take shape and start to look good at this point.

The "TC" has taken shape and looks really good.  The golf course superintendent, me, (Grant Meredith), shows off the newly finished work.

Here is a closer look of the "TC".

In the coming future we plan to add Dianthus flowers to the center of the "C" and will seed fescue into the rest of the flower bed.  Irrigation will be installed throughout the entire area and fescue should be seeded around the surrounding trees and up to the cartpath as well.

We recently added new stonework on #8 cart path between the green and the cart path.  We added this stone to relieve the stressed out area from traffic and moisture.  There are other areas on this hole that have been utilized with such stone work so it will continue to be consistent and helpful for traffic and moisture control.

 Before adding stone, we identified where the highest level of traffic was and painted a line where we wanted work to be completed

 Fabian, our irrigation tech, is adding stone to the high traffic area as tight as we can possibly fit them together.  We made the stone level with the cart path and level with the turf on the north side of the cart path.

We have finished adding stone and sand to the area.  We still have a little bit left to do within the blue line, but we plan on finishing this soon.