Feel free to forward this blog post to anyone on your email list that is a club member. Many thanks to Charlie Voss for his many years of serving on the thankless Greens Committee.
IS IT TIME TO POKE THE BEAR?
That is a phrase borrowed from our blogger, but as your acting commish, let me explain what it means.
It all started this past Monday night when our own Charlie Voss attended the Greens Committee meeting. Charlie has concerns about the condition of our golf course ... particularly the current demise of most of our greens. The Greens Committee meetings are precisely the place for those concerns to be put on the table and discussed. Hopefully an understanding of the issues will lead to a solution.
Before Charlie had an opportunity to voice his concerns ... concerns, I might add, that are echoed by a great many of the Oldtimers ... and as well by a great many golfing members of our club ... but I digress. Before Charlie spoke, four other members of the Greens Committee gave Ed a vote of confidence. They said, and I paraphrase, that they know he's been working many hours to address the problems and that they are behind him all they way.
Ed said both at the meeting and in his blog which went to every club member, that the culprit is the lance nematode, a bug we've been dealing with for 5 or 6 years now, and a bug that is apparently here to stay. Ed also said there is a chemical which could possibly address the lance problem. But, it costs $200 a gallon and we can't afford that. He also said that the three applications of growth retardant he applied to the greens this spring didn't exacerbate the lance problem.
It was suggested by a member of the committee that our abundance of trees in close proximity to our greens might be a contributor to the problem. If so, he continued, let's cut all the trees down within 50 yards of every green. Ed agreed that trees were a big part of the problem and that it would be fine with him if the trees were removed.
It was also mentioned that if it hadn't been for the Coronavirus, there would have most likely been a hefty dues increase, because we are simply not paying enough for our club.
(Allow me to digress again. I was always taught that an increase in price should reflect an increase in value. I joined this club a third of a century ago for one reason and one reason only ... to play golf with my wife and my friends. I don't care a whit about the pool, the clubhouse, the parties. I totally understand that other members don't care about golf. I always thought we could peacefully coexist. But the value of the golf course the past five or six years has not warranted a dues increase. In fact, in almost every measurement category, the golf course has been in decline.)
So, we need to Poke the Bear. We need golfing representation on our Board of Directors or our club controllers will continue to turn their heads away from the obvious ... OUR GOLF COURSE NEEDS HELP! Please, those of you who are eligible, place your names on the ballot. We will vote for you. We will support you.
I would appreciate it if every Krakow Oldtimer would thank Charlie Voss for taking the brunt of verbal abuse every month at these meetings. There isn't a person at this club who is more familiar with our golf course than Charlie. He could write a novel on the suggestions he's made to improve our course both visually and in play-ability. If only he could put his ideas into practice, what a great golf course we would have.
And one final thing. Can we not afford to spend $200 a gallon for a chemical that could restore our greens? How much did a gallon of that growth retardant cost?
Rich Purschke up 1 to 23. Dennis Harrison up 1 to 26. Dennis Kossmann up 1 to 26.
| Aholt | 30 |
| Alferman, T. | 33 |
| Butler | 29 |
| Clark | 35 |
| Coleman | 35 |
| Crow | 34 |
| Curtis | 32 |
| Dister | 29 |
| Ecklekamp | 38 |
| Edmonston | 24 |
| Eggert | 31 |
| Eichelberger | 27 |
| Fortner | 27 |
| Gildehaus | 26 |
| Hall | 28 |
| Harrison | 26 |
| Homeyer | 26 |
| Isgriggs | 16 |
| Johnson | 27 |
| Kavanaugh | 27 |
| Kossmann | 26 |
| Lakebrink | 21 |
| Lamke | 20 |
| Loyd | 23 |
| Marquart | 25 |
| Moosmann | 28 |
| Morris | 22 |
| Nealis | 23 |
| Parmentier | 33 |
| Purschke | 23 |
| Sciuto | 27 |
| Sharma | 31 |
| Smith, M | 22 |
| Triplett | 28 |
| Voss, C. | 29 |
| Voss, D. | 32 |
| Zastrow | 34 |
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