Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Leaf Season Starts Later Than Normal & Ends With Severe Storms Leaving Debris Scattered Throughout the Course!


The leaf season didn't start truely until the middle of October.  With the weather being so great with limited low temperatures...the leaves were slow to fall.  Once they started to fall, there were some days you couldn't even tell that we did anything at the end of the day.  I hope the membership was able to recognize the effort given in trying to keep the course playable & clean.  Much of the work is done during the week but a focus was given on the weekends to provide a course that was as close to great condtions as possible.  Kudos once again to the great Grounds Crew!!!  The severe weather this past Sunday has added to the fall cleanup.  In total, 4 trees were lost during the storm & 2-3 trees will need to be removed.  Not to mention all the small tree debris that will have to be cleaned up....no fun.  Thankfully the season is near the end so we have a few months to get the course back to where it belongs.

Once the leaves started to fall....they came down in a flury.

This area was cleaned 2 hours before this photo.  What the heck??

Get home from Idlewild and there are leaves asking to be cleaned up at home.  Kiddy up!!

Leaf season ended last week when we finished the course but comes with severe storms that brought alot of tree debris.  Timber!!!