If you’ve played recently you likely have noticed the Green Expansion Project work (as I described in Paul’s Weekly Golf News two weeks ago) we have done over the past 10 days. It measures t...
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I know it's been a long time since I posted last mentioning our progress at that time. Since then we of course made great progress on getting the greens back to a playable condition but it wasn't...
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We're doing about everything we can to enhance recovery of the severely winter damaged greens I showed in my last post. It's been a little over 3 weeks now, since the last post. All damaged areas...
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As the brutal Winter of 13-14 ever so slowly turns to Spring we are all anxious to get out on the course. Many are wondering what the condition of the course is in and how much injury may be p...
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This is a copy of my 'Clippings' article that will be published in our Club's Newsletter, Skokie News, in Oct. For those members whom follow me on Twitter or this Blog this is an earlier vie...
It's a cold, and now very wet start to the 2013 golf season! If we can even call it started yet! Last year at this time (for the period from March 1 through April 18), we had had over 30 plus da...
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With Christmas and the traditional annual wrapping that occurs during this time of year just around the corner, we're beginning a different kind of wrapping on the course, that is Greens Covering...
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With the dog days of August past, and Labor Day's Club Championship "in the books", it's now time we turn our attention to various late summer / fall tasks as well as a few more involved projects...
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To begin, Yes this is long overdue! I suppose I could say it's been one of those very difficult summers where I had very little time to spend on my computer, and I would be entirely accurate. In ...
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Where to place bunker rakes has been a topic of discussion for many years. Placement in or out of the sand is typically the debated issue. At USGA and PGA tournament events placement is generally...
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Oh where has the time gone? It's mid summer right? No, it just feels that way with rather dry conditions and a few mid 90's thrown in for good measure. At least this week will cool off a nice amo...
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After record setting warmth and very low moisture conditions through early spring, the last ten days or so have been a bit more normal. We've seen cooler temps, a few heavy frosts that set back...
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As the NCAA's March Madness wraps up this weekend so to does a month of unusual Madness for those of us in the business of golf turf maintenance. Perhaps Mad-rush might be a more apropos term giv...
After one of the mildest and lowest snow total winter's (to date anyway) it's not surprising that we are off to one of the earliest course maintenance starts that I can remember in the past twent...
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First of all, HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL! Yes, this is my first post of 2012 but prior to this point, since the turn of the year, there hasn't been anything really exciting to blog about. Equipmen...
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I thought by now it would be 'Beginning to look a lot like Christmas', but not just yet! After finishing leaf processing (mulching), winterizing the course (irrigation system and winter disease p...
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In mid-October we conducted our first fall greens aeration session utilizing small diameter tines which allowed for rapid healing. The purpose was many-fold and included: compaction relieve (from...
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I know... It's been too long since I've posted, but not because I haven't had much to write about. Much to the contrary for sure! Last time I left you we were thick in the process of repairing/re...
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The last month or so has been challenging in many ways (a nice way of saying cruel!) with record rainfall, extreme and prolonged humidity, wind storms, power outages, paddle project site work, to...
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It's getting all to frequent that at some point in a multiple day tournament the skies open up, or the winds whip up, or the air and humidity heat up, and we are left with some form of damage to....
Round Three. Another powerful storm ripped through Chicagoland yesterday and left over 800,000 customers without power including Skokie Country Club and the Grounds Operation Center and (of pot...
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It's been one of the oddest weather years I can remember in many years. Cold and wet for much of the spring, a few record hot days sprinkled in, then temperatures cooled off again, then, as summe...
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With a golf season thus far of up and down temperatures and frequent rainfall, we have to cross our fingers prior to any event and hope for full cooperation from Mother Nature. We certainly got o...
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Over the last several weeks we've certainly had our share of weather woes. It's been unusually cold and cloudy, for what seems like an eternity, and then there was a few clear days of warm, near ...
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At the 114th Annual Meeting of Skokie Country Club last evening, the Phase 3 Improvement / Paddle Project was overwhelmingly passed and as such brought about a whirlwind of activities for us to...
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