This past weekend, I had the opportunity to experience Sage Valley. The condition of the golf course is magnificent! After our round, I spent 2 hours with the superintendent, who showed me around the property. The maintenance team is broken down into 2 departments. One, golf course staff is responsible for everything grass, from the pinestraw-grass interface, in. This is about 20 people. The other crew, landscaping (has its own supervisor separate from the Super), has 15 employees who maintain all pinestraw beds, flowers and shrubs. Above is a trailer of pinestraw parked on property. At HCC, I use 1 per year. At Sage, they use 13/year!
Below, a greenhouse located on site allows the landscape department to grow many of their own flowers from seed. This is something I would love to consider one day. Imagine being able to reuse hanging baskets and pots for 2 years.
SubAir is under all of the greens. The units aren't the shelf model you find at most places. These oversized units service up to 5 different greens. A manifold allows the SubAir to pull from one green, closing the 5 others. It rotates through the greens at the discretion of the Super.
Above, This is a wall to wall irrigation schematic of their practice area. The entire property has wall to wall irrigation.
The pinestraw areas on the course receive a lot of attention. In fact, the many mulch paths are raked daily! They handpick an debris or pinestraw that gets mixed in the day prior.
