Please join author Bradley S. Klein on Tuesday, April 28th at 6:00 p.m. in the Ballroom. Bradley Klein’s award winning book, “Discovering Donald Ross” describes a man’s career that lasted from the early 1900s to the late 1940s and no other golf course architect is credited with more fine layouts – or is more revered – than Donald J. Ross. This lecture is a wonderful way to uncover the life and work of a true artist. In the decade since the book’s publication, regards for Ross restoration and for the beauty and charm of classic-era golf course design have become central to the golf scene. Our very own Golf Course Architect, Billy Fuller, will also be present to begin a discussion on the golf course master planning process. RSVP to 407-849-0990. This lecture is complimentary. Bradley Klein will have books available for purchase and/or signing.

Members, we have been continuing to clean, detail and shine up the golf course. The weather has been great recently and we are continuing to fine tune our practices to continue to improve the golf course day by day.

Bunkers edged, depths measured and relocated. We will be re-sodding all of the bunker edges and digging out the pulled sand from the sand-pro edges this summer with Celebration Bermuda. 

We will continue to monthly or as needed edge the coquina cart paths with the sod cutter to refine the detail of the paths. 

We are very fortunate, as a club, to be able to do a "dry-cut" on Mondays when we are closed. We have slowed our reel mowers down to 5mph and have increased the clip frequency which will in turn make the turf denser. 

I'm sure many of you have yearly seen the weak areas due to consistent winter shade on green's #11 and #12. This past Monday we sod cut these areas and put down Tif-Grande which is the same turf located around the Clock Green. This Tif-Grande will be mowed at a height in between our approach height and our green's height. Although no Bermuda grass is shade tolerant, Tif-Grande is considered to be more shade tolerant than other cultivars.

After stripping these areas on #11 and #12 a very thick sod layer was revealed which in turn we aerified twice with 5/8" tines before laying the new Tif-Grande sod. 

After aerifying, the Tif-Grande was layed and once established will be rolled multiple times and eventually cut with a walk-mower at the height of .300.

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This past Monday we applied our first mole cricket application of Talstar and Merit wall to wall which will cover our first cricket mole cricket hatching. In June we will be applying Talstar and Lamda -Cy and then in August we will be applying Talstar and Dursban for our third and final application. Next year we will applying Topchoice and each year we will continue to rotate between different chemicals and routes of control. 

We decided to go a different route with this pine straw application in all the beds for the upcoming 1911 Tournament. We decided to go with a company to bring in and spread 1,500 bails which turned out to be a great operation and the company was able to finish the whole golf course in a day.