Irrigation Repair

We discovered a cracked pipe behind 13 green today at Bully Pulpit! The water coming from the crack caused all of the soil in the area to wash out and it made quite a mess. I took a shovel and dug in and found where the pipe splits into a T and there was a crack coming off of the T. So me, and the Irrigation Tech AJ cut out the broken piece of pipe and replaced it using a couple couplings and a compression fitting. Hopefully this fixes our issue!

Opening day!

The golf course opened today to nearly a full tee sheet. Still have a few areas that need cleaning up but thanks to the help from a group of volunteers, we did a great job of getting the course ready to go! This summer should be a great time!

Final cleanup...

Spring as finally sprung here at Bully Pulpit and we couldn't be more excited! The opening day was moved to this Saturday, the 27th, and we have alot of work to do to make sure the course is looking great for the first tee time.

One of our main issues so far this spring has been the clean up of aerification cores. Due to all the moisture we've gotten lately, it's been really difficult to clean up cores in a timely fashion without making a mess. We've been dragging the cores with the Core Buster Drag Mat from Par Aide and it is doing a tremendous job of breaking up the cores and returning some of the soil back into the ground.

After tomorrow, course clean up should be officially complete and we'll be ready to rock come Saturday! Take care.

Never saw this coming...

Started today mowing and cleaning up teeboxes in preparation for our opening on Monday. Well, that idea was quickly squashed when a period of sleet/snow came out of nowhere. I was put to work helping repair a cattle guard on the property to prevent cows from accessing the golf course. Not what I expected to be doing today, but the guard turned out very well!

Snow update 4/21/13

Went to check out the golf course tonight when I got back to Medora and was very pleased with what I saw! The snow melted an awful lot over the weekend. The extended forecast calls for warm temperatures beginning on Thursday so hopefully we are ready to roll for the season very soon! The last photo is a comparison between 1 week ago and tonight.

Another day...

Well, another day of watching snow melt here in Medora. With temps around 40 and ample sunshine in the afternoon, the melting process is coming along at a decent pace. Forecast this weekend calls for more moisture but we have our fingers crossed that its going to be in the form of rain and not the dreaded white stuff! Spent a fair majority of today shoveling more channels into our greens to help speed up the melting process.

Aerification tine holders

Over the years, many random containers have been used to store aerification tines when not in use, including cat litter boxes! We were able to use some random wood we had lying around and fashion up some better containers. Below is before and after: