Bunker Work Underway

We continue to juggle tree removals and bunker work based on the temperatures.  When sand is frozen we focus on trees and when it thaws we focus on bunkers.  That process will last a few more weeks and slowly shift entirely to bunker work.  Bunker drain repairs, edging, and redistributing sand are the primary tasks with bunkers for now.  Completing these steps will allow us to more effectively allocate the 25 or so loads of bunker sand coming over the next few months. 25 loads of sand is about 575 tons which will go a long way towards improving playability and upkeep in bunkers.  For perspective that is about 25% of the total needed to fill bunkers if we were to start from scratch.  We plan to start adding sand in the next 2 weeks.  Since there is already sand in them we hope to get close to "full" with this effort.  We can only stockpile 2-3 truckloads at a time here at our shop.  Each truckload is roughly 6 trailer loads with our tractor.  Roughly 150 trips back and forth from the shop with our tractor will be needed to distribute the 25 truckloads.  There will likely be noticeable differences between the sand we are getting and the sand we already have.  Since the plant that produced our old bunker sand shut down in 2019, we were forced to make a change.  Not many reasonably priced options exist at the moment.  A major bunker overhaul will still be a high priority so when that time comes we'll revisit the sand options available.