A Busy Winter

Hello everyone and a Happy New Year from the Grounds Team here at Olympic View. I am aware that you haven't heard from us in awhile and I wanted to right that wrong and let you know that in 2019 we plan to keep you more up to date with the goings on in the grounds department.

We shall keep you apprised of any up and coming projects, there should be some messages from Sydney the goose dog and maybe even a couple of videos to entertain and/or educate as the year goes on.

Firstly, I would like to make mention of the rope and stake situation on course. This Winter has been relativity pleasant golfing weather with warm temperatures and minimal delays in play. The last two months have seen plenty of rain and the course is saturated. This being said the course has been busy and the daily footfall has caused some extra wear and tear in high traffic areas. Currently all of our ropes and stakes are out on course to direct play around these areas, they are not intended to get in your way but to protect our course so that when Spring finally arrives we can have the course in tip top shape for your playing pleasure as soon as possible.

Please work with us in keeping these areas protected as we get through the final couple of months of Winter. We ask that if you need to move a stake to take a shot to please return it to it's original location and when walking around the greens to take the extra time to follow the traffic control. I would also like to say that having the amount of traffic control on course that we currently do brings us no pleasure here on grounds, a lot of work goes in to straightening, moving and cleaning these items daily and we hope as much as you do to the end of the Winter and the start of Spring so that we can begin to bring in these unsightly and inconvenient items.

Lastly a quick note on our cart path usage over Winter. As you will all know we are generally on cart paths only during the Winter months as the course has many wet areas that take time to dry. Usually even after a decent dry spell there are still many areas in the roughs that remain very wet for long periods of time. It is for this reason that even though a fairway may seem dry enough to use a cart on there may still be localized areas on both fairways and roughs that are still very wet.

During these months we are constantly checking these areas and we liaise with the Golf Shop daily on the decision to allow cart or carts carrying blue flags free reign on the course. As with the traffic control these measures are used solely to protect the course and to allow for a better experience come Spring.

Thank you for taking the time to read this first blog of 2019 and I will be posting another soon to let you know what we have in plan for the beginning of this year.