Thank you!

5.23.12

 

Maumelle Country Club Members,

 

I wanted to inform everyone that I have had a member step forward and volunteer to help this weekend. Mr. Hearnes will be helping us with morning course preparations during the 4-Ball.

 

Thank you in advance Mr. Hearnes!

 

A little further information for those who may be interested. The reason I felt in necessary to ask for help was an employee cut ties with us Tuesday early morning leaving me short handed considering we have a full course shotgun at 8:00am and we are trying to have the course in perfect condition. I am in the process of finding someone else and I hope to have someone in place next week.

Verticut Greens

Tuesday we verticut our greens first time this season. We verticut every other week during the growing season. Theses Maintenance cuts are not very aggressive but they help us control the grain and the build up of thatch. We set the verticutter to cut at 1/16 of an inch deep and cut each line twice. This time our direction was due East and West. We change directions each time to maximize grain control.
In june when we aerify we will set the verticutter at a dept of 1/8 of an inch.

Our by-weekly verticut has very little negative affect on ball roll.

Austin Verticutting nursery green.

                                                                 After verticuting

After mowing!

Austin Britton, Assistant Golf Course Superintendent

I would like to introduce Austin, our new Assistant Golf Course Superintendent.

Austin Comes to Maumelle Country Club from TPC Southwind in Memphis.
Austin graduated with a Turf Management Degree from Southwest Tennessee Community College and has worked at SouthWind for approximately 2 years.

Please welcome him to our Maumelle Family!!

Here is Austin, slightly surprised by the Camera,

Austin hard at work spray fairways.

Target Green Finished!

The new Target Green on the Driving range is complete and looks great. Thanks MGA for the funding to complete this project!