Showing posts with label Leaves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leaves. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2020

Plans for the Fall, The Invitational 2020

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  Hundreds of courses in our business host a tour or major event each year but for thousands of others, there is a local event that is the m...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Late Fall, Winter Play

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As the weather is changing, time for discussion regarding late fall and winter play rules. This season we will allow carts off the paths a...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Tracking in Fairways

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Green committee meeting last night and a question was posed regarding tracking lines or vehicle lines in fairways. Normal for this time of y...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Leaf Patrol, Bridge work and foot prints in bunkers

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After mowing greens this morning, part of the staff spent the rest of the day clearing a large amount of leaves that accumulate over the win...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Continued leaf work and a little preaching about shade on greens!

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With the winds, cold temperatures and  natures timing, leaves are falling at great numbers than we can remove.  The staff are out trying to ...
Friday, November 1, 2013

First big leaf drop

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Our leaves appear to be a couple of weeks behind in changing colors.  Along with that comes the clean up after they fall.  We've had som...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Leaf clean up along fences

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As the leaves drop each fall, we spend  a great deal of time and energy either picking them up with our  sweeper or blowing them in windrows...
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Leaves 2012

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With just enough rain overnight on Monday and before the heavier rain(that nasty four letter word) took place yesterday, the staff went all ...
Monday, December 19, 2011

Final leaf clean up

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The staff have spent a couple of days between rain cleaning up the fence lines along #4-#6 from leaves which had raced across the course and...
Thursday, October 13, 2011

Fall and leaves

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Some great weather for golf the last couple of weeks but as the calender moves forward, so does the process within our 1000 trees on propert...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Leaf season is not over

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As many of you know from your home lawns, leaf season is not over here at Glen Echo as well with well over 1,000 trees inside the fence line...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

First mowing of the rough, not yet

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We have had enough rain to keep the soil moist but not completely saturated.  As we finished our leaf clean up late last fall, more leaves c...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

The making of leaf compost

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With the large amount of leaves we have at the facility, it would only be logical for us to make something of value out of a couple of these...

More leaf work

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Sometimes the large area blowers cannot get into the tight areas where leaves accumulate. The pictures below show the staff blowing the lea...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Leaves, leaves and more leaves

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During the fall, we attempt to do leaf removal work on a regular basis. The last two weeks of October which included well over 8-10" of...