This is the Friday before the charity tourney for the PA Club. It is our biggest tourney of the year with a double shotgun of fivesomes. Most of the the players are not regulars of MM so it is a perfect time for us to put the shines on the place and reap the hopefully good press amongst the Vineyard's golfers. It forces us to push a little harder but we all reap the rewards of a well prepared course. We started today with a heavy fog. It burned off to a bright sunny warm day until about 4pm when the clouds rolled in. A nice treat and great harbinger of splendid weather to come.
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| Fog rolled in like pea soup for about an hour. view from 5 towards 4 |
I ran into Kev changing cups after he and Will finished mowing tees and aprons and took a picture of the up turned plug. This demonstrates why we aerify. Notice the roots growing in the old holes.
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| you can clearly see 3-4 sections of roots which are growing long in the air space created by aerifying. |
also today Island Timber started the second phase of tree work on the right side of the ninth hole. Two years ago some landowners pooled resources and removed a few oaks and topped a few trees to improve their view of the sound. They also planted a few cedars to protect the road from golf balls off the tee. We also gained an improvement in our view from 8 green. The next phase is in the same general area and we also gain a view of the pond and sound beyond from the 9th and putting green in this go around.
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| view from nine green before |
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| during project. pictures do not do it justice. |
In the middle of this post I had to run to the boat and pick up a couple of special treats for this season. A little preview for the people reading the blog: I had the ball washer towels printed with a commemorative logo as well as a set of flags.
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| wind was whipping this thing around so hard to photograph.... |
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| Not every day you turn 75 |
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