Our miniature golf course features six ponds, two fountains and a 15 foot boulder waterfall. The Iowa weather dictates for us to store the pumps inside in the winter to keep them safe from freezing. In the spring, the ponds are cleaned and prepped for the installation of the pumps. It is always amazing to see […]
Goose Be Gone
Canada Geese can cause lots of damage to a golf course. Because they don’t have teeth, they eat the greens to use the sand to grind up their food. Golfers don’t like geese. Golf course owners don’t like geese. The DNR loves geese. Yep. They are protected. If a skunk digs up the golf course, we […]
Caught Ya!
On Wednesday, I was out taking some photos of the golf course when I noticed a familiar foursome. Yep, that’s right. Our outside crew was out playing a little golf after their morning of work. We thought that we might try to conquer the weather and our quest to get the items stained by bringing […]
A Little Tree Trimming
The trouble with having hundreds, probably thousands, of trees on your golf course is that they need care. They are forever getting hit with a disease, lightening or wind. When I was a kid, I would ride around the golf course with my dad and he would point out something that I believed to be […]
Intake Adventures
There is a common catch phrase in the golf industry. It goes something along the lines of cleverly calling irrigation irritation. That’s right. There is nothing that can cause a golf superintendent’s hair to turn gray faster than irrigation. To get things started, we have to get prepared from the winter. In Iowa, we have… […]
Staining. The Story Begins.
As we mentioned in the posts here and here, we have lots of staining projects up our sleeve for the coming year. Unfortunately, the weather hasn’t been cooperating for us to get our stain on with these outside projects. That’s when we decided that if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em! That’s right. We decided […]
Winter Uglies Get the Axe
The problem with having a 100 foot wall of windows is that you have a 100 foot wall of windows. Windows that get little kid finger prints, elbow marks from doors opening, and the grime of winter. All easily visible. Please note the finger print in the middle of that picture. We definitely should have […]
Jake the Butcher
The spring is probably the most hectic time around the golf course. There are so many projects that need to happen to clean up from the winter and prepare for the summer. There are perennials to transplant, native grasses that need trimmed back from last year’s growth. Roses need to be pruned. New mulch needs […]
Fixing Cart Paths
This post is about one of our great nemesis: our cart paths. It seems like we just can’t ever save enough money to put in continuous cart paths. There are many factors that come into play, but typically there is always a project or piece of equipment that ends up being more important in the […]
Golfers. Start Your Engines.
In a family run business, everyone just chips in. Clogged toilet? I’m on it. Carpets need cleaning. Yep! That, too. Tables and chairs need moved around for a party? Garbage left in the driveway. There is no shame. You get dirty. You get pulled away from your “real” job. You just chip in. Same goes […]