I wanted to share a couple of quick notes with all of you. The first is the placement of a red and white indicator stake on hole 9. This stake is placed at the 60 yard mark, and is meant to help players beyond the rope line discern just how far they are from the green. The stake and it's appearance are not set in stone, we are simply trying a new system asked for by members who were having trouble deciding how to approach this hole.
My second piece of news is that one of our trap rakes, the machines we use to rake the bunkers every morning, is currently out of commission. With 96 bunkers on the course this means that raking each one every morning and still finishing in a timely fashion (i.e. ahead of play) is now out of the question. For the remainder of the week, bunkers will be spot raked only, meaning that any bunker deemed playable without being raked will not be. We ask that you please be extra vigilant in raking yourself out of the bunkers during this time. Every set of foot prints that is not raked will add even more time to a task that will already be moving at half speed.
See you on the course!
Elliott Dowling
