Tree work continued this week since the courses remained frozen and snow covered. The staff spent most of the week removing brush and smaller trees in the wooded area between Lakes 7 green and 8 tee. They are getting rid of the unwanted vegetation in preparation for removing the bigger trees after Christmas. We'll be renting an excavator again this year to make removing and cleaning up the larger trees faster and more efficient, and having the brush removed saves a lot of time. There are several large Oak, Maple and Hickory trees in good condition that we plan to keep, while most of the smaller trees (Cherry, Locust, Poplar) are damaged or in decline, and need to be removed. Similar to past years, we're removing trees and brush to provide more sunlight and airflow to areas of the golf course that have weak, thin turf.
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| Looking back towards 7 fwy from 8 white tee. 7 was not visible prior to us removing the smaller vegetation. |
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| Looking towards 8 from 7 fwy. Still a lot of work to do, but it's a good start. |
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| 8 near the silver tee |
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| Woodline to the right of 7. A significant amount of brush and smaller trees have been removed, but there's numerous trees that still need to come out to improve the turf above the fairway bunkers. |
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| This area between the rain shelter and 8 silver tee was so overgrown you couldn't walk around the rain shelter. |
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| Here's a view of the blue and gold tees on 8. Notice the shade cast by the trees even when they don't have leaves. |
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| Weak, thin turf around the tees on 8 created by a lack of sunlight and airflow. |
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| I regularly use an app called Sun Seeker to identify where the sun is located at a given time on any day of the year. For our purposes I chose the first day of spring and summer to identify which trees need to be removed to maximize morning light. This is a view of 8 gold tee looking back towards 7 tees. |
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