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2024 Golf TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
OPERATIONAL UPDATES: Due to increased compaction on our tee sheets, we have introduced new features such as a tee time waitlist with autofill from ForeTees and a dedicated email address for Advance Tee Times (ATT@fhgc.com) to enhance member convenience and experience. We encourage everyone to review the upcoming calendar of events for the 2024 golf season, which includes exciting tournaments, fitting days, and other special events. CLOSURE DAYS FOR MAINTENANCE: Beginning the 2024 golf season with a‘soft’opening allows our golf maintenance operation some distinct advantages.The staggered start will provide flexibility in staff training, optimize budgeted resources, and allow for essential maintenance practices that contribute to exceptional course conditions. The closure days in early May will enable us to perform agronomic practices and maintenance tasks that are difficult to complete with golfers on the courses, ensuring our courses are set up for success in both the near- and long-term future. Our goals for closure days are twofold: to carry out practices that we can’t effectively complete while needing to set up our golf courses or with golfers around us, and to ultimately contribute to regaining our former top 100 prestige to Forest Highlands Golf Club. These practices include leveling sprinkler heads around greens, working in the creeks and lakes on Canyon holes #4, #5, and #13, and Meadow holes #5, #7, and #14 to repair water features and leaks. They also involve agronomic necessities such as de-thatching or vertical mowing of greens (all greens on both courses), tees, and fairways (#2 and #3 Canyon and #5, #14, and #16 Meadow), followed by sand topdressing. There is a time- consuming element to cleaning up the debris left behind. Other tasks we are targeting during these nine days of closure include edging all the cart paths on both courses, sodding and/or seeding thin or dead areas that have not come through winter healthy, bunker work including edging, sand distribution, or addition of sand as needed, weed removal from teeing areas, moss removal from Meadow greens, and practice area maintenance at the Canyon including bunker maintenance, topdressing the teeing area, target green maintenance, and weed eradication. If you have any questions or comments regarding these updates, feel free to reach out to our dedicated team. We are determined to provide you, our members, with the best possible experiences and always doing the best for Forest Highlands Golf Club!
Dates subject to change.
May 16 Ladies Guest Day - Canyon Course May 20 Men’s Guest Day - Canyon Course May 25 Demo Day May 30 Ladies Opening Day May 31 First Friday Skins Game June 1 Mandatory 1st Round Men’s Team Match Play June 1 Shopping in the Pines June 2 Couples 9 & Dine June 12 - 14 Couples Invitational June 14 Top Gun Shootout June 21- 23 Member-Member June 26 Par 3 Tournament June 28 First Friday MIXED Skins July 4 NEW!! Hickory Stick Tournament July 8 FH Foundation Denise Martinez
Thank you for your continued support. Doug Sutter, General Manager/COO Matt Bailey, Director of Golf Bill Abbey, Director of Agronomy
SOFT OPENING SCHEDULE
Pro-Am July 14 Couples 9 & Dine
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VOICE IN THE PINES • APRIL 2024
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