Advance Week Is Upon Us

Known as "Advance Week" this is the 7 days leading up to Monday, August 19th. We will spend the entire week fine tuning all our procedures and cleaning up loose ends. The forecast also suggests we'll likely be dealing with some weather like we are this morning. It's been worse this season but we still have fairways to pump water off which will restrict mowing there and in the rough today. The bunkers came through fine this time. You could just see the relief on our crew's faces during our morning meeting. They are very good at bunker repairs but they've been through the ringer this year.

Part of advance week is protecting the pin positions on the greens. What this entails is cup locations that you will not be used to seeing very often or even at all. I apologize in advance. Hopefully it won't be too bad. We have given printouts of each green to our 2 setup staff so that should help. They have done a great job over the last couple of weeks fixing small imperfections in the greens which has further improved the putting surfaces.

On The Course:

• Cups will be painted daily and edges trimmed with small scissors.
• Snow fence will be laid out on all the par 3 tournament tees, #2 gold, #3 gold, and #10 gold to protect the majority of those surfaces from use by members or those competitors that may arrive early.
• Major tree line trim. We haven't really been cutting in these areas over the last month as our resources have been directed elsewhere. The string trimmers, push mowers and smaller rotary deck mowers will be out over the next 3 days.
• Golf Canada, Tower Equipment and SER will be out in full force from sun up to sun down. They are behind schedule.
• CBC technicians and Golf Canada electricians will be arriving this week as well. You will notice small green flags in the rough where any cables are laid down. They are there for our rough mowers but please be mindful of these flags and such. 
• A very large crane will be driven out to the 18th hole near the hospitality suite area on Friday. Wish us luck. It has to go there at the request of CBC, no compromise. Believe me I tried to have it located somewhere else. 
• Member divot sweep over the course late Friday organized by Mr. Bob Ingram. Thank you for all your help.

Speaking of divots. Now more than ever divot repair must be done consistently and correctly. Please put large divots back in the divot hole and sprinkle sand over top. I cut fairways on Sunday and could not believe some of the divots that were not repaired in any way, shape or form. I hope I am correct in putting the blame on guests.

• One other task. I mentioned in my last blog that we were done for topdressing. We changed our minds and will be doing a very light topdressing on the greens tomorrow morning (Tuesday). 

All for now,

Wade