The Broadlands Golf Course Maintenance Update

frost damage in rough on 18 It's the time of year again to begin worrying about frost.  Walking or driving on frosty turf can cause ...

We now have a new weather station here at the golf course! The best part about this weather station is that it can be viewed by anyone o...

Earlier this season we reshaped all of our bunkers and were able to get the bunkers to be a little more consistent.  I have heard a couple ...

moving the hole sign on 10 to its new home We just completed the landscape work around our hole signs.  For this project we removed all...

Algae has always been an issue in our lakes.  We have mostly just relied on chemical treatments to combat our algae but this can be very di...

 Over the past 4 weeks we have been doing some extensive work to all of our bunkers.  We are about 95% complete with the bunker edging and r...

I recently came accross an article on the USGA website titled 'Man Is a Dog's Best Friend' and I could not agree more with w...

Eric Porter working his magic in the skid steer Over the past year we have been converting our road base cart paths to the gray crusher...

With so much open space and water on the golf course we have a had a bad deer fly problem over the past couple of years.  These are the fly ...

Last week we discovered a leak just outside our pump house, to our surprise it was more than just a leak.  Our pump house has a steel pipe t...

3 fairway has been our most challenging fairway since the golf course opened 13 years ago.  With very high sodium and bicarbonate levels, al...

I was recently elected president of the Rocky Mountain Regional Turfgrass Association.  This Association is responsible for putting togethe...

With all the great snow cover this winter we have been keeping ourselves pretty busy in the maintenance shop.  I always get the question f...

Over the past year there has been an increase in coyote activity on the golf course.  This activity can be contributed to the explosion of t...

Now if we could only figure out how to get our greens to bounce geese off of them like this, we wouldn't have a goose problem.    Geese ...

You can feel the chill in the air, and see the leaves turning from green to a nice golden yellow. You wake up with the sun at 6:30, you grab...

If you have been on the course over the past few weeks you should have noticed that the ride across our bridges is much smoother and quieter...

I came across this article today on the Golf Course Superintendents website that addresses the heat, drought, and flooding and unusual weath...

disease issues on 7 fairway My last few posts have focused around all the rain that Mother Nature has been supplying the golf course, but...

Storm that dropped 1.25" of rain on the course Over the past week we have had heavy rains hit the golf course every afternoon. 0.6...

3 fairway in late April 2011 3 fairway in mid June While 3 fairways turf conditions are not at an acceptable level we have seen impro...