Thistle Removal

During our big member tournament, the crew members were kept away from the golf course so that the players could enjoy their round without interruption. An ongoing problem throughout the summer has been our vigorous thistle growth around the native areas. One area that had gotten really bad was our driving range. 14 of us took machetes and pitchforks and began hacking them down after lunch. You can see from these three pictures that the machetes worked very well. It did not take long for the 14 of us to cut down the large groups of thistle and haul them to our green-waste dump area. The driving range looked great after we were finished.