On one of the only cool day of the past week your grounds crew set out to improve the air circulation around the struggling fourteenth green by removing the "gunch" and liming up low hanging branches as far as we could reach. The guys, curious to the nature of the word "gunch," tried looking the word up in the dictionary and could not find it but did find it listed as a term used in golf.
It appears to be working. The air was always still and hot as a sauna. The alternative would have meant installing expensive fans that aren't cheap to run. (BTW, we intend to remove several trees later this fall after the course is closed in order to improve the levels of light reaching the ground.)
To stay out of the hot sun a couple of your grounds crew replaced the brick pads near the main entrance of the club house. The side pictured below was tricky to install as the sidewalks and curbing rose or fell in three different directions.
I think it looks nice and does dress the area up and it is safer by far to walk on.
Recently I was asked what the big green X's stood for marking several trees around the course. Want the answer? Look to the heavens.
The tree is dead. It is much easier to locate and remove the dead from the stand after the leaves have fallen from the living. _Mk
