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It can be a huge challenge to keep a golf course in tip-top shape when the sun is consistently beating down on it every single day.
It takes tons of water and course maintenance for the course to survive some of the brutal conditions the summer months have to offer.
Brad Vinnick, the general manager and head golf professional at Greenbryre Golf & Country Club, discussed the challenges staff are currently up against in July.
“It is a challenge by no stretch of the imagination on keeping the greens and fairways as comfortable without really getting them too dried out and crusty,” Vinnick explained.
“As you get more and more play, the fairways and tee boxes are probably your hardest one.”
Vinnick believes the conditions at Greenbryre are right up at the top when it comes to other courses in Saskatchewan.
“I would say (we have) one of the better sets of golf course greens probably in Saskatoon, if not the province in terms of conditions,” Vinnick said.
You don’t just have to ask the general manager at the course. Vinnick says the members have been completely satisfied so far.
“They love it, actually. Lots of praise from our membership and lots of league (players) out here. They said it keeps getting better and better and that all has to do with our maintenance staff and superintendent,” he claimed.
Vinnick thinks it’s impressive when you factor in just how busy the year has been after several quiet years from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This year, we have 185 and growing golf tournaments, plus 110 league days so when you add it all up, you’ve got over 290 rounds of activity here in four and a half months,” he said.
“I think with a lot of groups and businesses not being able to do anything for the last couple of years, they’ve come back. The hardest challenge for myself personally is to find days and fit them in.”
With plenty of golf left to go in the season, Vinnick is hoping the course operators don’t run into too many staffing problems once the university year begins in just over a month.
“We are still very very busy through the rest of July, August and so much in September. Unfortunately, (the) third week of August we start losing lots of our university staff (and) we start losing lots of our high school kids that go back to school,” he said.
“We’ve just got to fight through it and everybody does a little bit of a different role come the last five to six weeks of the tournament season.”