The exceptional weather this winter has allowed us to continue working on projects.  This week we have really accomplished an incredible amount of work on the 9th hole.  On Monday, we had an excavator here to pull out some major stumps on 9 & 10.  Excavator??? think of it this way, baby teeth come out with a little wiggle and tug, wisdom teeth require an "IXTRACTM" visit and surgery.  Same with trees, little trees - no big deal - 70 year old trees have major roots and require Major equipment to do it right.  We had to walk the large machine in on plywood planks so no damage was done on the way in or out.  Once dug, the stumps were so massive that we could only put one in our dump truck at a time, the photo to the left show the monstrous stump being dropped to remove soil.  (No, it didn't land on those legs, but it is a funny photo) The removal procedure took an entire day to pull 13 stumps that would have been directly involved with play areas.  Other stumps out of play will be ground down with a stump grinding machine, hopefully next week - again weather permitting.

On Tuesday, we had local tree experts Conserv-a-Tree come in with their giant tree spade.  They were able to move 7 trees for us from out of the way areas to the rough between 9 & 16.   Some trees as tall as 25 feet were placed carefully to provide separation of the two holes.  Three large Red Cedars were placed further up the 9th fairway to block out the view of 9 green from 16 tee, a really huge improvement.  Sr Staffer Miguel Flores jumped in so we could show you the size of the transplant holes.

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Smithtown's Nick Paquette skys to block shot by No. Babylon player

                                        Big Hoop game today for Nick and Crew...Go Bulls!!!