Here is Joby mowing his first fairway of the day last week.  At least we know he checked the oil before he left the shop.

How does a potential rain event continue to dry up on the edge of Marquette for 15 hours?  We are in such a unique summer micro bubble.  This entire town is hydrophobic.  Just amazing!

Topdressing Greywalls on monday went well. We had one equipment failure and a short rain delay but we still were able to get the job done. Great job crew!

We had to pull the intake out of the wet well in the Heritage pump-house.  The lower metal piece of the flapper valve broke in three chunks causing pump prime issues.  I will have one made at a local machine shop and then put it back together.
The joys of a 60 year old pumping system.

What a thunderstorm!  It rained very hard yesterday afternoon and is raining very hard again right now.  I expect to find many bunker and cart path washouts this morning.  A little delay may result this morning so we can get out and prep the course before play.

We had two fairway mowers go down in the past week.  One on Greywalls that was sent to the dealer for a factory covered repair (hydaulic wheel cylinder) and one on the Heritage that lost a hydraulic pump.  The Heritage mower is torn down in the shop as we wait for parts.

A few bees (thousands) found a nice resting place on a rock behind #18 Green next to the path going from lower 16 to upper 16.  Andy took care of the swarm this early morning while they were inactive.  Quality work by 'The Crew'.  

With the low humidity levels and mega low dew points all spring mowing has been difficult on the fairways.  Limited growth and no dew makes it difficult to see where you are mowing and the guys do not want to leave any misses, they just hate when I find them and ask them about it.
Thill is happy as ever mowing on #18, why? because we have morning dew!