Fairway Yardage Markers

Well as many of you who have made your way around the golf course this spring have noticed we have new yardage markers in our fairways.  The first stage of these is the new black and white striped 150 yard pole and yellow and white 250 yard pole; these match the design of our flag sticks and practice green markers.  These markers add a great deal to the golf course as each are placed in the absolute center of each fairway and can be seen from the tee grounds, this aids possible new members, tournaments and you seeing where to place your drive from the tee.  One of the things that we heard many comments on last year was the fairway yardage posts were on the edge of the fairway and didn't give golfers a good indication from the other side of the fairway for yardage or drive placement. 

With fairway yardage markers there are several different avenues to go with, one is the flexible rubber sticks that you have had for many years prior to 2010, the yardage posts like last year and then what we have in store for you in 2011.  Each of these have some trade-offs, both aesthetically and also what fits for your golf game, hopefully you will find these as a better replacement for our yardage posts from 2010!

Our second stage to the 150 and 250 poles will be yardage stones placed at the 100 and 200 yardages in the center of the fairway.  These white stones will be etched and painted for the yardages courtesy of Ty Stewart; they will be installed on our Member Work day on Saturday April 9th.

Happy Golfing!

Reel and Bedknife Grinding

As most home owners know, the blades on your mower need to be shappened several times during the growing season, just as those are, we also have that process but on a much larger scale.  With the reel style of mowing (Our Greens, Tee and Fairway Mowers) you have several other factors to deal with, for a reel that isnt absolutely sharp and true every single day adds substantual stress on the grassplant.  Below are photos illistrating part of the process on grinding, but before that can even begin several hours must be spent on each reel getting it ready for the season.  This would include going through all bearings (front and back rollers) reel bearings, grease zerks and replace any other damaged components along with a brand new bedknife.  Here at AGCC we have 6 greens reels, 3 tee reels and 15 fairway reels that we will be going through.  Once all pieces have been replaced the grinding commences, to which we use the Bernhard grinders at Veenker Memorial Golf Course.  This process of grinding happens 3-4 times a year but we also do regular maintenance on the reels before each and every mow to ensure a perfect cut. 

Hopefully this has givin you all a better understanding on the perfection that it requires to do just a simple job as mowing greens.

Bedknife Grind





Reel Grind



 



AGCC 2011 Tee Markers

Here are our new 2011 Tee Markers!!  These classic looking markers are home made from white oak, they have a burned in logo and have a painted edge.  I hope all of you are excited as we are to have these for many years to come.

Stay warm!

100th Anniversary Flags!

Well as many of you know this year at AGCC will be our 100th Anniversary, and in that we will have several new additions to the golf course to enhance our great Club.  Included here is a photo showing our new Anniversary Flags, these feature our new Anniversary logo, incorporate our Red-White-Blue color system for pin locations, and have a black dirt guard on the flagstick side for ultimate durability.  You will notice that we have added the checkered pattern, this will aid you all in seeing the flags at a greater distance by having a portion of each flag having white squares, we also have switched from the rich dark blue of 2010 to a Royal blue per your request to better see it from the fairway and tee areas.

These flags also will greatly compliment our new state of the art flagstick.  The flagstick will be completely unique to AGCC as very few golf courses use this old-school design with a very classic look.  Along with these new flags we will have brand new home-made White Oak Tee-Markers, yardage markers and hole signs.

If you are interested in purchasing this flag to hang in your home or office please contact me and we will work something out throughout the year!  We have a limited supply so make sure you ask fast!

Enjoy!

Pond Project

Well the completion of the digging and excavating has finished.  You can see all the photos if you visit my Picasa public photo site.

The final project looks absolutely stunning, here are some photos showing the improvements, in such has the expansion towards #1 fairway and a secondary pond built on #3.  Brad Benson and myself are very excited to have a clean deep pond to which to work around for our 100^th Anniversary Year!  The new white rock that surrounds both ponds will aid in soil erosion, pond grasses from establishment and keeping those pesky musk-rats at bay! 

We will begin our sod and seed work around this pond as soon as possible to make sure your 2011 golf season will be spectacular!

Enjoy!

Main Pond looking out towards #1 and #3 greens



Pond on Number 3, left of green and fairway