Earlier this month our course was awarded the inaugural Aquatrols Conservation Award for the wildlife habitat management programs we have undertaken over the years on the golf course. We are very grateful to Aquatrols for this award and for the recognition of our environmental stewardship projects. It is our belief that golf course management and environmental stewardship go hand in hand and in all honesty it just makes the job more fun and interesting.
I would like to thank Mr. Steve Fasano of Aquatrols for being so gracious in his comments and his time in presenting us with the Conservation Award. Each year Aquatrols sponsors the Golf Course Industry magazine Super Social Media Awards at the annual Golf Industry Show. The Super Social Media awards are presented to golf courses for their use of twitter, blogs, videos, and other forms of media which get the word out of all the great work being done on their course.
It has been a busy winter with many improvements made to the course and we are ready to get going with the growing season. It seems quite early but Spring has sprung at Harrison Bay with the trees blooming and the greens coming out of dormancy. We hope this is the start to a great golfing season for all and we hope all will come out and enjoy the great weather and all the hard work that we will be putting into the course.
Last year we began working on improving the overall appearance of our golf course when we renovated the front sign on Harrison Bay Road. Front Entrance Face Lift Part 1and Part 2 This year in continuing the work to make your experience even better we chose to renovate the old split rail fencing along the front entry road, surrounding the main parking lot, and along the back of the native planting bed which runs along #1 tee.
The project was a fun and exciting one that allowed us to hone old skills and tap into new talents some of us didn't know we had. We began the project on January 22 and finished up today, February 15th. In total we installed 249 4"x6" pressure treated posts with 2' buried in the ground. We drilled and screwed in 2,304 3" galvanized bolts into 532 2"x6" pressure treated rails for a total of 4,256 linear feet of fencing. Yes we counted it all. 😁
Here is a video we put together of the project. Hope you like it.
Special thanks go to Bill Greene, Willie Hamby and Shane Shelton for their commitment and hard work on this project. If you like the finished product and see them on the course let them know. They suffered a few cuts and splinters along the way to make this project such a success.
Spring is just around the corner and we can't wait to get everyone back out on the links and enjoying the course that we all love caring for so much. See you out there soon.
