Thursday, May 23, 2013

PRACTICE AREA

I've received a few questions about this cover at the chipping green complex.  Since the practice area opened last season it has been utilized to the fullest.  That's great, but with that comes a few growing pains.  The fact of the matter is most members only use the bunker closest to the parking lot to practice.  This has caused a tremendous amount of sand to be "flashed" onto the bunker face and green surface.  Last fall we re-sodded the bunker face because 3" of sand had already accumulated in just 5 months of use.  To alleviate this problem we are experiementing with the use of a cover.  The staff will pull this cover back 2x each day to return the flashed sand back to the bunker.  If this proves to be a permanent solution, we will custom cut a cover.