Big 7 day stretch

Just wanted everyone to know that this upcoming 7 day stretch, Friday thru Tuesday, will be loaded with golf. On Friday, we have the Chamber of Commercescramble starting at 1:00. This is always a big scramble, and this year will be no exception. This Saturday and Sunday will be the City Championship hosted by our own PGA Professional Kirk Schooley. I have seen some different people out playing golf this week, so it seems that people are practicing for this event. On Monday and Tuesday, we have the Central Kentucky Senior Golf Association playing. The following Wednesday and Thursday are our normal women's and men's day. Like I said, this is a big 7 day stretch that we will do our best to maintain the course and keep it in the condition it needs to be in for play. So if you need to get a round of golf in before this all starts tomorrow, please get out there and play. To all the golfers coming in these 7 days, enjoy the course.

DryJecting Done!

Just wanted to say thank you for everyone who was patient and understanding thru today's DryJecting of our greens. The process went very well with no mechanical issues. Thank you all for allowing us to finish the back 9 with no interputions, this makes the process go faster. After a couple of mowings and some fertilizer, the greens will be healed sooner than you think. Again, thank you all during this necessary maintenance practice. We'll see you on the course.

Maintenance Update

Just wanted to remind everyone that on this upcoming Monday, we will be DryJecting our greens. The front 9 will be closed to around 11:30 am and then we will proceed to the back 9. The front 9 will open up at around 11:30 am. Please be patient with us as you may come across one of crew dragging a green. You may wait as this process only takes a few minutes, or you may hit short, and skip to the next hole. You may play the back 9, but if you see us working on the green that you are playing to, please hit short, pick up, and move to the next hole. This will help speed the process up due to having no interuptions. We hope that with no mechanical issues, we will finish the greens between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Thank you for your understanding and patience thru this process as we continue to improve the conditions of the golf course.

Cart Rules

Looks like we had a tremendous weekend during this Memorial holiday, and I hope everyone had a chance to get out and play some. The course conditions are coming along nicely, things are taking shape, and if we could get a couple weeks of dry weather we could stay on top of rough and have more of a handle on it. But we are doing what we can. On a side note, I once again would like to let everyone know that you NEED to keep your carts on the path around EVERY green and tee and on ALL par 3's. If you have a handicap flag, that does not mean you can drive right up next to the tee and green. PLEASE keep our cart at least 5 feet away from those areas. I noticed today that someone with a handicap flag drove back to the white tee markers on #14 tee box. In order to do that you have to drive over the tee box itself. That is a problem, so please DO NOT drive your carts up to the edge of any green or tee. By following this rule, you are contributing to keeping the course in great shape for other golfers. By ignoring this rule, you are being disrespectful to the course and the game, and causing damage to the turf. Thank you.

The season begins!

With summer like weather starting to hit us, the golfers are coming out to enjoy the course. With 3 inches of rain this past Friday night, we will play check up to get the course back in shape and mowed out. On the maintenance side of things, we will be verticutting the greens on May 31st. Please have patience during this process and if you come upon a green that we are working on, either wait till we finish or move on to the next hole. I will be glad to give you an automatic par for that hole. If anyone has questions regarding this process, please stop me and ask, will be glad to talk to you about it. Also, the top tee on #6 is very close to opening. I want to seed it one more time and get in just a little more thicker before we open it. I appreciate all of you who have reframed from hitting from it. As many of you have know by now, I got a hole-in-one on #10 this past Tuesday and want to thanks everyone who congratulated me on that. It was my 1st one ever and I'm proud that it was on Juniper Hill Golf Course, my home away from home. That's it from now, so we'll see you on the course.

Updated maintenance schedule

The course is really starting to take shape now. The greens have healed nicely from the aerification and we are getting a consistent cut on the turf. We have scheduled the DryJect for our greens on June 7th. This has been a great system that allows us to push sand deeper into the soil profile. This will be the 4th time we have used this system and the the roots have increased by 4 inches since we started a aerification/dryject program. Within the next coupleof weeks, we will also make our first verticut on the greens to help with the thatch along with a light topdressing. This will most likely be a Monday project so we won't interfer with heavy play days. As for the rest of the maintenance programs, we are in a routine of mowing and getting our detail crew together and planned out to keep landscaping beds cleaned. If anyone has any questions about what's going on here at Juniper Hill, please stop me anytime on the course or if you see me in the pro shop. We'll see you on the course.

Rain, rain, and more rain... again.

This past weekend proved to be a 'stay inside and relax' weekend due to the amount of rain we received. Our rain gauge had 6". The course help up great considering, and by Monday, Juniper Hill was just very wet and sloppy. A little stream running down #17 was all that remained. Unlike some of my fellow superintendents, their course were underwater. Pictures posted showed just how lucky we were with the rain. Connemara Golf Course has one hole that has over 7 feet of water covering it. Cherry Blossom Golf Club has 3/4 of it's driving range under water and their ponds had risen up to 5 feet to the edge of some fairways. Eagle's Nest Golf Course spent an entire day on one green just to wash the mud off of it. Luckly, yes we were. My sympathies goes out to all dealing with the rain and hope for a speedy recovery. So for those who complain about being on cart path only for one day here, think about not being able to play for about 2 days at the place you call your home course and being on the path for the rest of the week.