The fall color has started and many of the Maples are starting to change. If I recall from planting this tree on #1 about 15 years ago, this is an 'Autumn Glory' variety of Red Maple.
A major priority that Mr. Davis and I are talking about is ways to improve the turf conditions on #12 fairway. Our biggest challenge on that fairway is the root zone. The river sand base is very compacted and very shallow. Water doesn't move below it as the subsoil is black in color- meaning it is severely anaerobic- lacking oxygen. Without replacing the entire root zone with a good growing medium (which would be very expensive) my hope it to continue to chip away at with cultural practices like drill and fill and other forms of aerification and quality sand incorporation. I took the above soil profile and needed a hammer to get below a 3" depth. When I hit the sub soil, it sunk right into it, because it's mud. You can see above, this fairway is growing on about 4" of a river sand base which is placed on top of a muck-like soil. This doesn't make for healthy turf.
You can we are continuing to work on cutting back the wildflower areas to improve them for the coming years. This is the bed at #12 tees.