Good afternoon,
I hope everyone has had a great week and is enjoying this beautiful weather…
As we end February and start March we had a good week in all areas of the property. We continue to have wonderful teaching moments with all the new staff and continue to get better. I appreciate all the wonderful comments I’ve received from everyone as we’ve had numerous positive changes. As I said this will be a process to get where we want to be, and I see it daily that we are getting close.
Had a very successful week on the golf course and have a great plan for the course moving forward to make it better. We had our Regional Director of Agronomy on property and has suggested a few items for us to look at and continue to head in the direction that the Golf Course needs to be in:
- Irrigation – We have very weak areas on the course, and this is caused by poor irrigation and irrigation heads. Todd is going hole by hole checking each head and watching the coverage it produces, and we will determine if we need to make changes or add heads.
- Greens - Greens are trending in the correct direction and as most of you have seen we’ve placed new sod down on some of the bad areas of the greens and we will continue to do this to the bad greens. Also, moving forward every Monday we will be topdressing, brushing it in and then will roll the greens. This will help the greens to continue to move in the correct direction. We’ve also ordered a part for the cup cutter to help make sure we are cutting holes properly and replacing them as well.
- POA – Yes, the POA is not great in some areas, and we’ve sprayed all of these areas and as I said a few weeks ago it takes around 14 days for the plant to show it’s dying. We have looked at our pre-emergent plans for the remaining of the year and have made some adjustments.
- Fertilizing – We are going to get very aggressive with this in the next few weeks and we are moving back to more of a granular fertilizer so you will see that out there. We will be pushing a lot of Nitrogen & Iron.
- Cart Traffic – I bring this up weekly as this is a big issue for us and for the golf course. Moving forward we will be putting up stakes and ropes and will be moving them daily so we can control the areas where everyone is driving. Also, if we can get everyone to stay on cart paths around tees and greens this would help out tremendously.
It was a great visit and had a lot of positive comments as well as learning moments for the team so we can get better and have a better golf course.
Hopefully, everyone has had a chance to meet the staff in the Golf Shop as I’m excited to have them and they are all doing well learning the policies and have brought great ideas to the table. Please give them so time to get to learn everyone and welcome them to the team.
Please sign up for the following events:
- March 21st,22nd & 23rd – Member – Guest – Friday: please make your own practice round time. Saturday and Sunday will be 8:30 Shotgun Starts
- April 3rd, 4th & 5th – Member – Member – 8:30 Shotgun Starts
If you can sign up for these events soon so with all the product I’ve ordered, we can make sure it’s on property, on time.
Please stop by the Golf Course and check out the merchandise and we just got some new Adidas Golf Shoes that are for the Masters Week!!
F&B continues to get better in all areas, and we continue to try to come up with different ideas on how to get people to support us, as we can’t be successful with out the residents here. I heard that some are upset about the prices of items, and we are charging what we are being charged by the vendors and trying to make a profit for the restaurant.
Please see the specials for next week:
- Saturday – March 1st – Lunch – Grilled Cheese with Bacon - $12.95 – Dinner – Lamb Osso Bucco - $26.95
- Sunday – March 2nd – Breakfast – Corned Beef Hash with poached eggs with hollandaise sauce - $12.95
- Tuesday – March 4th – Lunch – French Dip - $13.95 – Beef Stew in a Bread Bowl – 19.95
- Wednesday – March 5th – Lunch – Chef Salad - $13.95 – Dinner – Burger & Brew - $13.00. We know it is Ash Wednesday so we will have a fish special all day.
- Thursday – March 6th – Lunch – Hot Dog & Fries - $9.00 – Dinner – Chicken Fajitas & rice - $20.95
- Friday – March 7th – Lunch – Fish Fingers - $13.95 – Dinner – Fish & Chips – $21.95
- Saturday – March 8th – Grilled Cheese & Tomato Soup - $12.95 – Dinner – Prime Rib - $31.95
- Sunday – March 9th – Breakfast – Steak & Egg Wrap - $14.95
Another great week of specials please call and make some reservations and enjoy a great meal.
I’m also excited to say that in March we are going to try something new on Wednesday and we will be having live entertainment in “The Tavern” from 4:00 to 6:00 with happy hour special drinks from 4:00 to 5:00… Please call and make a reservation and we are excited to try something new.
If anyone signed up for the Band on February 28th I have gone and gave everyone their money back to the credit card you used to buy you ticket. It does take 5 to 10 business days for this to come back to your account.
Also, don’t forget about other fun items we have planned in the community:
- Karaoke and Name that tune.
- Make a reservation for Friday evening for live Entertainment
- March 22nd – we have another band in Fairfax Hall you can get tickets on the Arlington Ridge Golf Website.
- Women’s Night on March 30th – sign up on the website.
We appreciate all the support and hopefully we can see more people around and continue to help us grow and continue to get better. I know we’ve grown a lot in the past year and we still a long way to go and have great plans to get there.
Have a great weekend and please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Jason R. DeWildt – PGA
General Manager