I read a very interesting article from Grounds Maintenance magazine about ball marks on greens. The average golfer makes approximately six ball marks per round, so here's the math: With an average of 150 players a day, that's 900 marks per day, with 27,000 per month and 243,000 per season. That's a lot of ball marks! While mowing greens one day I noticed an excessive amount of ball marks on the greens, so the next day I decided to count the ones I repaired, all 107 of them. It took me an extra thirty minutes to mow greens that day so let's do a little more math. An extra thirty minutes per day times seven days a week is three and a half hours per week, fourteen hours per month, 126 hours per season at an average $9 per hour is $1,134 a year just to fix ball marks! So I guess my point is, please repair your ball marks. It's just proper etiquette.

I know Spring is a time when golfers like to come to the course by themselves to work on their game. We, the grounds staff, understand this so we anticipate you dropping a second, or third and sometimes even a fourth ball. The only thing I ask is when you see the grounds staff waiting for you to finish, please don't drop that third or fourth ball.

April showers bring May flowers, so by the end of the month we should have everything planted. If you would like to volunteer planting flowers just give me a call at 630-327-3416. Thanks and Happy Golfing!