Superintendent at Culver Academies Langford | Moreau golf course.
@PSUTurf
alum. Dad to 4️⃣ princesses and husband to the love of my life. Views are my own.
Just come behind with a pitchfork and clean it up. Having a good operator is key. Only get this aggressive 1 time a year. Works really well on cutting the runners in summer
Really regretting not putting out the dithropyr at home. Wife: why does our yard look so bad. Me: crabgrass. Didn’t treat for it. Wife: don’t you do this for a living?
Me: did you see I hung the shelves
Lost half of our crew to a bee sting yesterday (1 guy😂). So we had to get creative. That bar in the back isn’t just for lifting.. and if the roller was working, it would’ve been attached too. Almost like
@CarloselTigre24
One of the most beneficial things I did as an asst supt is spend most of the winter in the ETs shop learning. Understanding your tools of the trade is vital. Hats off to all the ETs out there that make it look easy.
This one is my favorite. Growing in of 2 green. Kicker was clearly meant to be green. Little bunker flashes. Gentleman handwatering bentgrass stolons or seed. And it’s the view where I caught my architectural bug, and knew I was at a place that was different, special, 8 years ago
So we are reducing our rough and expanding fairways closer to tees(and adding width). Definitely decreased mow time and increased aesthetics. Plus it fits the original fairway size.
We’ve been trying to add a little texture to the bunker faces that are to severe to maintain. Wasn’t sure at first, but slowly getting them to just fine fescues and it definitely makes a nice contrast.
“Native” bunker faces and certain no mow areas are starting to take shape with the new chemical program put in use. Will take some time to thin out but a couple apps in and we like the progress
Course is looking as good as it ever has. Note: we have had a lot of play from students, more play in fact then we would have in a typical year to this point. One thing we haven’t had is carts. I didn’t think it made that much of a difference but my goodness it does.
Some fresh shots of the par 3 corner of
#2
and
#3
. The green expansions maturing and the new texture of fescue has really bumped things up a notch. Langford and Moreau sure did something spectacular here.
Crispy on the edges and firm in between. Barely holding on and looking forward to some relief this weekend? 2nd hole widened to shoulders and 43 paces deep, hard to tell from tee
Hole 2 A whole new fair green that slopes severely uphill. Balls that don’t reach the green potentially roll 40 yards back down the hill. Short grass deflection areas help off target shots find the bunkers. The green has recently been mowed out to the approach in the old photo
Good friend told me, when trying to find new mow lines, to picture the slopes in the snow because the land doesn’t lie. Really neat to see them as short grass in the snow.
Another museum trip yesterday and a few new photos have been found. This one was huge as it confirms the 6th green included the entire knob on the right and the front of the green went all the way down to the flat area where we have expanded!
Playing around with some map apps and finally found one that updated most of our new mow lines. Here is the first hole, which we have made even wider this year from fairway bunker to the green
#shortgrass
#langfordandmoreau
I’m sure not recommended, but added a treaded smaller tire to put 648 and have been punching a girthy 3/4” solid on all surrounds and slopes to help dry things out and dormant seed some chewings.
Another sandman day. Vcut behind. Also another visual of the new green line of the 9th. Closer to the original. 9th went from one of the smaller ones to one of biggest. Which based on the 1939 aerial seems acurrate.
Goodnight room, Goodnight moon, Goodnight greens and tees too. Goodnight trees and goodnight leaves. Good night irrigation, goodbye desiccation. Goodnight thatch goodnight mat goodnight warm sunny air Goodnight courses everywhere.
Squared off the first fairway back to the cabbage. Short grass around 4T/1fwbunker starting to get its look. Expanded fairways doing the same. New native/fine fescue areas around tees popping too. Love the sun!
New short grass area getting lots of traffic so far. Be sure to carry if you go for green off tee. Everything near green slopes toward this funnel about 10 feet below green. Forces accurate short irons if you play position, as it should. Lower flight shots are fun too.