20 Valley Golf Club Course Update

Course Update
March 1st, 2010

The 2010 season is fast approaching as there is just a month before the tentative opening date of April 1st. The 2009 season was a great season with the course in great shape throughout the year. We had our 50th Anniversary and completed a number of improvements and upgrades to the course. We hosted some large events at the club that went very well and which generated good reviews for the club. We did have some challenges especially with the weather being a little cooler and wetter than normal with over 26” of rain through the growing season. We would like to thank all the volunteers who helped during the 2009 season, this help is invaluable to the maintenance of the course. Thank you.

This past fall we started work on a few projects, we rebuilt the cart path around #8 green and the halfway house. We started the path to #9 green which will be completed in the spring. We have also begun work on the bunkers on #10, 11 and 12, with #11 being completed this spring.

We are preparing for another great year and have set our annual clean-up date for March 27th, 2010 from 9am to 12pm. Please call or e-mail me if you can help at 905-562-5641 ext.227 or steve@twentyvalleygolf.com Students can earn some valuable volunteer hours this day. It is a great help in preparing the course for the season, as well as a chance to catch up with everyone at the club.

The projects we will be working on for 2010 will be completing the path to #9 green and continued upgrades to bunkers with new sand and drainage. We will also be levelling some tee boxes around the course.
We will continue to work on the IPM accreditation program, which started in 2009. This is using cultural practices scouting and monitoring techniques to reduce the use of pesticides on the golf course.

The winter has been cool without much snow accumulation. The course had a small layer of snow, which melted in late January when temperatures rose. This left some ice on the course that I have been monitoring. Snow has finally started to accumulate as we have seen 6” in the last couple of days, making it feel like a winter season.

We hope everyone is well and we are sure you can’t wait for spring to get out and play golf. We look forward to seeing you on the clean up date on March 27th or when the course opens in April to start another great year.

Steven Muys, Golf Course Superintendent