Wayne's World Fall 2022 Part 2
Wayne’s World Fall 2022
Shadows are getting longer, and nights are getting cooler. It looks like fall is coming! It’s an excellent time of year at La Cumbre Country Club. The grass growth will slow, and our greens and fairways will start to roll. The bunkers will hold less water, creating a softer surface. I think it’s the best time of year for golf in Santa Barbara when other courses across the country are emptying irrigation lines and placing covers on greens.
This year, we had a very busy season learning to accept and use reclaimed water. The reclaimed water saved the club over $177,000 this year alone if the water had been purchased as potable. We did have some adjusting, but we learned and got around those issues.
We removed over 6,500 linear feet of cart paths. Plus, remodeling the areas those paths impacted. In addition, to new teeing grounds, paths, and native areas.
On native areas, I have been informed La Cumbre Country Club has been chosen by Golf Digest and The GCSAA as the top facility in the Natural Resource Conservation Division of the Environmental leaders of Golf Awards. So, I hope you enjoy the super bloom this spring and realize it is being noticed by our professional peers and the golf media.
Below are some upcoming projects you will see completed:
- Remove tullie rhizomes from Laguna Blanca from inline playing areas.
- Complete cart path scatter areas on holes 2, 3, 17.
- Remove and complete the new cart path on the 9th hole by green.
- Finish drainage work on new paths 11, 15.
- Sod bare area on 13th hole where the path was removed.
Stay Below the Hole!
Wayne Mills
