Golf Course
 

Turf Care Center Update

July 2008

    First and foremost, the turf care staff would like to wish everyone a happy 4^th of July.  The heat of summer has arrived which means the turf care staff has begun to shift their focus strictly to the maintenance of the golf course and slightly away from the larger projects that we are able to complete early in the spring and later in the fall.  The upcoming weeks will consist of a lot of mowing and maintenance work to prepare the golf course for this year’s 78^th annual fourball tournament. 

            Right now the number one priority for the turf care staff is health and condition of the turf through out the golf course specifically on the greens.  Greens speeds will be watched closely over the upcoming weeks as we get closer to the fourball tournament.  We will be topdressing all the greens again on Monday July 7^th.  In addition we will be doing some core aerification on the 7^th green that same Monday.  This is in response to a hydraulic leak that we experienced during our last topdressing application.  We will also be core aerifing a couple of tee boxes including #15 and #6.  If anyone has any questions please feel free to stop Neil or Dave and we can answer those questions for you.      

            As some of you may have noticed the turf care staff did some major pruning along the right side of the 6^th tee this month.  The purpose of this was two fold, first it now allows for players to tee off from the right hand side of the tee box and second it allows for better air movement across the tee which promotes turf health and quality. 

            As most of you already know the 7^th green is now being cut higher then all of the other greens and is being cut twice a day.  We intend to maintain the 7^th green at the speed that it is currently.  We hope that this provides a much more pleasurable experience for all golfers playing that hole.  If anyone has any questions about the 7^th green feel free to stop either Neil or Dave they will be happy to help you out.

            We would like to take this opportunity to ask the membership for a little bit of help with a couple of small issues.  First and for most we ask that all members remember that it is the players responsibility to repair ball marks.  This will help ensure that putting surfaces are as smooth and true as possible.  In addition we would also like to ask that members please pick up their broken tees after hitting and please throw them off the tee in the rough, PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE THEM IN THE YARDAGE STONE ON THE EDGE OF THE TEE!!!!  Broken tees left on the tee surface can be very detrimental to our mowing equipment causing it to give an untrue cut and cause problems for the inner workings of the reel mower itself.  In addition we would also like to remind the golfers that it is their responsibility to rake their foot prints in the sand traps when they have finished playing their shot.  We appreciate your help with these two matters.

            The Turf Care Crew would like to thank all members who have been up to use the new practice area behind the 9^th green.  We are very excited to see people enjoying that area and we hope that everyone finds it to be a pleasurable place to practice their golf shots.  We ask all members who are using that facility to please use the divot mix provided at the chipping are to repair that divots so that we can maintain the turf at a high quality level.

            In closing, as the heat of Summer is upon us, we hope that everyone is having a pleasurable golf season here at CCNB.  As always if anyone has any questions please feel free to stop by the Turf Care Center, we will be more then happy to answer any questions that you may have.  Thank You and enjoy Summer!!

                                                                                                                Dave Ousterhout
                                                                                                                Assistant Superintendent
                                                                                                                The Country Club of New Bedford      

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CCNB boasts an 18-hole, Donald Ross designed golf course.


 

WHO CAN PLAY WHEN

Monday:
Course opens at 11:00 a.m. to ALL members, employees and qualified caddies.
 
Tuesday:
WGA 18 hole group has general preference until 1:00 p.m, at the discretion of the Golf Pro. Class ALL members after 1:00 p.m., first tee only. TNL, 5:00 p.m. Shotgun.
 
Wednesday:
Class A Members only before noon.

Class B after 12:00 PM.
Annual House after 1:00 PM
 
Thursday:
Class A & B Members all day. 

Annual House after 1:00 PM
Mixed Golf League, 5:30 p.m.
 
Friday:
Class A & B Members all day. 

Annual House after 1:00 PM
 
Saturday:
Class A Members only before noon. 

Class B after 12:00p.m.
Annual House after 2:00pm
 
Sunday:
Class A Members only before noon. 

 Class B after 12:00.
Annual House after 2:00pm
 
Note:
Holidays follow a Sunday Schedule
Intermediates play as Class A Members
 
House Members:
Golf privileges are twice every month with payment of greens fees for the first round and second round then being free. House members may play in the Spring Barbecue as a guest. They may also play in the Fourth of July, Men's and Women's Fourball, and the Senior's Invitational Tournaments as a guest only if the member waives play 30 days prior to the tournament and has played in the tournament three (3) times in the past five (5)
years.