New entrance sign!

Asst. Superintendent Jerry Stockmal leveling the new entrance sign behind the 9th green. This sign along with the one that will be installed up along Germantown Pike will provide a understated yet elegant look for the club.

Preparing for new sod at the practice tee.

With the difficult winter behind us, we have realized what Bermudagrass has survived and what grass has not. These pictures show the complete removal of a 8,000 square foot section of the practice tee. Any areas of good grass were used to fix bare spots on other areas of the tee. We are expecting delivery of replacement sod on Thursday as the 1st step to full recovery.

Localized flash flooding closes course on Tuesday.

Heavy rains yesterday afternoon and evening with torrential rains in our watershed area causes course flooding last night.

USGA:Bermudagrass Winter Injury On Tees, Fairways and Rough

Weekly practice tee growth status.

Weekly growth status of L-36 Bermudagrass at the practice tee. These pictures will show recovery on a week by week basis. The long cold winter we had with the cooler spring so far has retarded the spring green-up of this warm season grass. Once the temperatures warm up the recovery will hasten and we will experience the benefits of this turf on our practice tee. 

Rain on Friday causes concern about Spring Derby..... Still get's played on the weekend.

As of 3:30 pm Friday , 2.7" rain

How things don't change between 1927 and 2014.

I have no words!

Back to the future.

9th hole at Whitemarsh Valley CC as pictured in "1927's Golf Architecture in America" by George C. Thomas Jr.

Present day at the same hole.

Waste not, want not! Using old bunker sand as topdressing for fairways.

Even though the two fairway bunkers on the 1st hole are not being completely rebuilt, we will be replacing the sand. There are many different layers in these two bunkers ranging from bunker sand from 12 years ago to multiple layers of flood silt. When the new sand is installed the appearance of the bunkers will all be similar on this hole.
We will be using this sand as topdressing on the 1st fairway. We have had silt contaminated bunker sand tested in the past and it is acceptable as a fairway topdressing. Just trying to "kill two birds with one stone".