If you drive on the cart path on number one, you are bound to see some turtles all perched on the log in the pond. They sit there. I’ve seen as many as twelve painted turtles hanging out. Stacked…
If you haven’t ever played golf in the spring, you need to make it a point to stop out sometime in the next week or so. The smells and beautiful trees only last a short while, but boy, do…
Spring. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love to watch the golf course come alive from the depths of winter. Green grass, trees budding with leaves, water running in the creek bed from the winter melt, my…
Last year, we had a severe drought. Our golf course actually ran out of water. It was the first time in our 40 years of business that all of the creek beds that feed our course’s ponds dried up. …
In case you live under a rock or outside of our great state of Iowa, we’ve had a pretty ugly spring. So ugly, in fact, that it actually snowed. In. May. Yeah. Let me tell you that I have…
Sometimes the hum drum of owning and running a business can be daunting. Like insurance. There are just so. many. options. Luckily, we have an absolutely awesome insurance guy by the name of Brian who owns Donaghy Kempton Insurance. I…
As I mentioned here, I have recently been nominated to participate on the National Golf Course Owner Association’s (NGCOA) board of directors. It has been a honor for me, in addition, it has also required me to do a…
Every spring, we host the Toad Valley Invitational. No. It isn’t anything that we sponsor, but rather a bunch of Drake Alumni who come in from all over the United States. They call it Toad Valley Invitational because you…
There is a common catch phrase in the golf industry. It goes something along the lines of cleverly calling irrigation irritation. That’s right. There is nothing that can cause a golf superintendent’s hair to turn gray faster than irrigation.…
As we mentioned in the posts here and here, we have lots of staining projects up our sleeve for the coming year. Unfortunately, the weather hasn’t been cooperating for us to get our stain on with these outside projects. …
