Author Archives: Tyler Ingram

“What do you do on a golf course in the winter?”

I receive this question quite often from members, as well people who are not familiar with GCM.  So what do we do when mother nature blesses us with temperatures below freezing? Some days we have to bite the bullet and … Continue reading

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Tree Removal

The GCM staff these past few weeks have been working on raising tree canopies, as well as removing dead and unsightly trees. Our past greens committee meeting we decided to move 2 maples from the right of  #12 fairway.  We moved the … Continue reading

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Happy Holidays!

The Golf Course Maintenance staff would like to wish you and your family a wonderful holiday season and a healthy and peaceful New Year. We are looking forward to 2015!

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Injury prevention on Collars

The GCM staff has been using “turning boards” or lattice to help relieve our collars during winter dormancy of the Zoysia and Bermuda grass. This will help alleviate some stress on the edges while we are still mowing greens during the … Continue reading

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Winter is coming!

    With a cold front moving in this weekend and temperatures dipping into the 30’s, I would like to take the time to remind and educate everyone of frost and freeze delays on greens, as well as fairways. This year having overseeded fairways we will have … Continue reading

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Fescue Renovation

The GCM staff has been working on areas in rough that were either winter kill areas or areas in fescue that were common bermuda. Our plan is to convert these areas to Fescue and make a monostand and more consistent rough. Until these areas are … Continue reading

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New Trees – Master Landscaping Plan

This year our staff continued with the annual tree planting according to the Master Landscape Plan created 2 years ago. We planted 6 October Glory Maples this year between 12 and 13 fairways and between 5 and 6 fairways. In … Continue reading

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