Christmas Lights and Trees

If you have been by the club lately at night you have surely notice the place is glowing under the light of nearly 80,000 mini lights.  The remnants of our summer staff along with our full timers spent close to three weeks putting up the lights and it shows!

On the course we have begun our tree work for the winter.  We have removed several trees already including a Sweetgum that had developed a pretty severe split (see picture) and was becoming quite dangerous.  Because the ground is still soft, we are not able to get our chipping equipment out on the course so we will "stage" branches in anticipation of upcoming frozen ground conditions. We will continue tree work throughout the winter, prioritizing dangerous trees, and will hopefully be able to make a positive impact on course aesthetics and turf conditions next season.

Split in a Sweetgum right of #11 fairway

Lucy supervised the removal of the Sweetgum.  Just one
less place for the squirrels to hide!