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Friday, December 28, 2012

Kansas City Match Play

The Kansas City Golf Association has recently announced the return of its Match Play Championship.  The tournament will be held over three days at Swope Memorial on May 10-12.  It is the first time since 2002 the tournament will be played, but will mark the 57th time in history it has been contested.  Swope Memorial last hosted the event in 1958.  The event boosts a lot of history including Jim Colbert and Tom Watson as previous winners.  You can read more about the upcoming event on the Kansas City Golf Association website.

  http://www.kansascitygolfer.org/2012/12/kansas-city-match-play-returns-to-kcga-schedule/

Friday, December 21, 2012

Irrigation Blow Out

The time finally came when we could blow out our irrigation system.  Usually we are able to do this around Thanksgiving, but the warm and dry weather has forced us to hold off until now.  We completed the blow out on Wednesday, December 19.  


The process involves hooking a large air compressor into our irrigation lines through the use of a quick coupler.  We then turn each irrigation head on through the satellite controllers to blow any water in the lines out to prevent them from freezing.  It takes us all day to completely blow the water out of the system.  Now we don't have to worry about any irrigation leaks until we charge the system back up in early March.
 
I also snapped this picture this morning of our putting green and first hole.  The first snow fall of the year came on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning.  It looks like there won't be any golf at least for today!
 



 


 

Friday, December 7, 2012

Tree Trimming

Although the date says December 7, it still feels like early October.  The warm weather this week has allowed us to continue trimming as many trees as we can get to.  We started going down both sides of #15 early this week and wrapped up going down #12 on Friday.  Hopefully we can continue trimming a little each week to make a dent in the thousands of trees on the golf course.

Trees to the right of #13 red tee.


The cleaned-up trees after a little trimming.