Preston Trail Golf Club Summer 2016

First two weeks at Preston Trail are done and the course looks great. Lots of rainy days recently are really going to help the course later in the summer when everything in Texas will be bone dry.

The first week here at the course consisted mostly of raking bunkers in the morning and various other jobs in the afternoon such as weed eating, mowing greens, spray painting the hazard areas, raking leaves and repairing/replacing the bunker rakes that are broken or faded. The traps at Preston trail are huge and a team of people hand rakes each one every day.

I learned the how the club sets up the course. They move the pin locations and tee markers every day. The markers are little arrows and the tips are called the "Nelson tees". Cutting the holes was somewhat difficult because the greens get rolled every day.

Also, I have been helping Fly mow the Rio, which is the river that runs through the course, as well as the traps. Most of the bunkers are deep and the grass slopes into it so fly mowing is really the only way to cut the grass consistently.

I also mowed my first putting green. I walk mowed the targets on the driving range which are basically putting greens.

I am really looking forward to the next couple weeks and all that I will be learning.

Raking the bunkers every morning. The rough is Bermuda

 

150 yards out on hole #1

Approach shot on #3. The approach areas are all Zoysiagrass

All of the putting greens are Bentgrass 

Hole #4

Facing the tee on hole #4, a short par 3

Approach shot on hole #12, fly mow along the water 

Facing the tees on hole #12, another one of the par 3's

Cart path on hole #14. The dark mulch gets replaced regularly and looks great with the dark green turf grass. 

Tee shot on #4 -par 3

Bridge over the White Rock Creek, which runs through the course. Also known as the "rio". 

Playing soccer during lunch break 

Picture of Bobby Jones, the late-great founder of the Masters Tournament

Setting up tee markers

Setting up the "Nelson" tee markers 

Thunderstorm in Dallas, Texas

Spraying away mud after another thunderstorm the night before

 

Washed out bunker

Toro greens mower 

The Walmart of herbicides and liquid fertilizer 

Very nice patio with beverage coolers, free of charge for members

 

Bent Tree Country Club. Across the street from Preston Trail. The superintendents both share equipment and discuss treatments of the greens regularly. 

Byron Nelson Memorial

Thanks for reading!! 

Austin Pettit