Welcome to the Murrumbidgee Country Club Greens and Grounds blog. With this site we aim to keep the members informed of work carried out on the course from new development to daily maintenance practices.

25 June 2012

Pipeline Update

The pipe is now in the ground and all the trenching work has been completed. For those of you that have played in the last few weeks you would have noticed the trenching work through the path to the 5th tee. The pipe goes under the path and behind the blue men's 5th tee and enters the dam beside the tee. Water will be pumped from the river into this dam when needed and then initially to the top dam near the clubhouse through existing pipes and the pump at the 5th dam. I will add some photos and further information to the Pipeline page in the coming days.

Ice Scrapers

One of the ice scrapers
Two ice scrapers have been created and placed beside the 1st and 10th greens for players to scrape the ice from their shoes before walking onto the green. We are currently trialling these to see if they are effective and will create more if successful. They will be placed beside the green in frosty conditions and then players can move them out of play when the frost clears. Please add some feedback with your view if you have one.

11 June 2012

Divots on greens

Recently we handed out pitch mark repairers and instructions on how to repair a pitch mark correctly so that we could help keep the greens in good condition.

It now amazes me to see a number of divots taken out of the greens near the hole by golfers. This is unacceptable and I encourage players in groups where this has happened to notify the player of this behaviour as it is damaging the course for all other golfers. Please have some respect for your fellow golfers and the course and take out your frustration some other way.