Staff Appreciation Day

The GFCC was hosting an outside tournament today, so with the golf course packed with golfers, the grounds crew took the opportunity to take the afternoon off from work.  We all went out for lunch at the Blue Moose, followed by a friendly competition of scramble golf at the Valley Golf Course.  It was a great afternoon break from work at the course and fun to do some team building away from our own golf course.

If there is an under appreciated job in the golf business, it is that of the grounds maintenance worker.  Out early on the course seven days a week at 6:00am (sometimes as early as 5:00am during tournaments), our team lives by the mantra "out of sight, out of mind".  Our best work is done early in the mornings when the course is quiet and we can make a mess, get things fixed, complete necessary maintenance tasks, and get the course prepped for play.  This team performs tasks on a daily basis ranging from mowing any of our 100 acres of turf, rolling greens, sodding and seeding, raking bunkers, pulling weeds, digging holes, trimming around trees, changing cups, blowing grass, fertilizing and spraying, trimming tree branches, fixing irrigation leaks, picking up trash, disposing of dead animals, you name it.  

A huge thanks to Collin, Justin, Matt, Alyssa, Terrance, Logan, Max, Michael, James, Hunter, Jake, Jack, Connor, Andrew, and Mitch.  Without these hard working guys (and gal), there would be no golf course at the Grand Forks Country Club.