Gold, White, Green

The flags on the course will now correspond with their location on the greens. This will give golfers a basic idea of the distance to play and allow the maintenance staff flexibility on where to put the pins. In the past with the caddies, there was no need for different colored flags other than white. The new colors are as follows:

Gold - Front
White - Middle
Green - Back

Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Course

Today we received our official letter stating that Bear's Best Atlanta is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Golf Course.  We are just the 20th course in Georgia to become certified.  Here is a small portion of the letter we received.

"Congratulations on being designated as a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary!  You have shown a clear commitment to enhancing wildlife habitat, protecting water quality, conserving resources, and education......Your efforts are contributing to a nation-wide system of lands that are being managed for wildlife habitat and natural resource conservation.  Perhaps more importantly, you are helping to serve as a model for making decisions in the future that benefit both business and our environment..... Keep up the good work!!!"

Vertical mowing of greens

Now that we are healed in from the small aeration we have started to verticut the greens again. With the warm weather and all the fertilizer releasing to grow back in quickly, the greens have been on the slow side the past few days. They are growing like crazy. We double verticut the all three practice greens and then cut them for a second time today. We will then verticut all the greens on the course tomorrow morning and mow them as well ahead of play.  This cuts out excess lateral growth and stands the leaf up to get a good cut.  They will still be a tad on the slow side for a few more days, but with the verticutting, extra mowing, and some rolling we will get them back up to speed.

Standing the grass up 2 directions

Machine used to verticut

New water cooler stand on #8

We have installed a new water cooler stand that can be accessed on your way to #8 and #10 tee boxes. It will hold two coolers so we can avoid that stand running out of water in the summer.