My New Bike

After watching about 20 stages of the Tour de France, I decided that I was going to get a bike. I have wanted one for about a year, and finally decided to take the plunga and buy one. So far, I have biked around Bear Lake (49.6 miles) and also to the top of Red Cloud. It is about 2600 vertical feet above Park City. The views were excellent. I now have 161 miles in the saddle.

Killing Thistles

We spent a lot of time this summer trying to kill thistles. We would spray them, they would die...but then there would be more thistles where we had just sprayed. We were fighting an uphill battle. They have grown quite tall as you can see in the pictures. We would spray as much as we could, then run the sprayed plants over and spray more.

Disease Season???

Well in the month of June we recieved a lot of rain. Well by Utah desert standards we recieved a lot of rain. Now on the course we have some sort of disease that has popped up. The boss is not too worried about it, but I think that it has progressively worsened as the days have gone on. The boss said that the course will eventually dry out and the disease will go away. I would guess that the disease is necrotic ring spot, but I am not sure. (It is not extremely developed)

Making New Golf Clubs

So i decided that I would try to make some new golf clubs. I purchased the items off golfsmith.com and have put three of them together. Three more heads should be shipped to me the first week of July so I can get teh rest put together. I also decided that I would attempt to regrip my clubs. so far I have regripped my driver and my putter. I will get the other clubs done soon.

Spray, Spray, Spray...

Well we have done a lot of interesting things, unfortunately I was not able to take pictures of everything. I have included some more pictures of our annual bluegrass control experiment. I feel like the whole thing was a failure, but we keep on doing it. There are just several holes that have huge dead spots in them now... Hopefully with all the rain that we have been getting the sand and seed that we put out will grow.

We have also been spraying for dandelions. I was only using a 25 gallon tank, because the backpack sprayer had no straps, so I decided to make my own straps.

We also sprayed the fairways with ferrous sulfate and primo. Primo is a growth regulator to slow the growth of the grass. We are trying to slow the vertical growth of the plant and promote more lateral growth. I sprayed a few fairways and then spent some time on the mix tank. The guy that operated the mix tank just sat and waited for the sprayer to be empty so that it could be refilled quickly.

Whats New

Well we have just been doing some routine maintenance lately. Tomorrow we have some big prijects planned so I will try to take some pictures and post some good stuff tomorrow night. Thanks for looking

Completed Tee and Drainage Project

Today we installed a new drainage pipe. The tenth hole is sloped toward the center of the fairway on both the right and left side. So when the irrigation runs, both areas drain down the middle of the fairway and create a wet spot. Today with our installation, this wet spot should be eliminated.

This was quite a tough trench to dig. The trencher cut about a 2 inch path, we were using 4 inch pipe, so i tried to cut two trenches side by side, and it turned out to be a lot harder than I assumed it would be.

This is what the tee box looks like after we put te final touches on