Respect for the golf course starts with proper course care; fixing divots, raking sand traps, and repairing ballmarks. 

These simple practices help to keep the golf course in good condition and enjoyable to all. 

 

• Always replace your divot ensuring that the grass is laying in the same direction as the surrounding turf.  Many courses provide sand and seed bottles- we don’t because we have great fairway bentgrass turf and replacing the divot is always preferred in bentgrass turf. 

• Rake sand traps with purpose, use two hands on the rake, take the time to replace the sand that was removed from your shot and be sure to rake out your footprints.  Our greens are designed in a way that we have very high play bunkers fronting the putting surfaces, in a single day these high play areas have very little sand left in them. It is important to properly rake the sand back after taking your shot so those that come behind you don’t hit clay.  We check and top up areas each morning with new sand but if the members aren’t properly raking the busy sections of bunkers become very thin.

• If you stand back and look at a putting surface and notice brown blemishes throughout this is the result of unfixed, or improper techniques when repairing ballmarks.  Please remember to fix your ballmark by pushing the turf in from the perimeter of the depression, never pry upwards.
   

 

Tee decks with un-replaced divots, fairways littered with divot pelts, bunkers full of footprints and poor rake jobs, and putting greens riddled with unfixed ball marks- this is not the vision we have when we think of a pristine day on the golf course, so please remember to practice basic course care, it is essential to the integrity and enjoyment of the game.

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Yours in Golf,

Mike and the Green Team