Club News On behalf of the staff, I want to thank all of you that participated in the employee holiday fund this year. After a challenging year, the team has faced, your support and appreciation has made this holiday season extra special for our families and us. We were disappointed that we were unable to host our traditional holiday gala and New Year’s Eve celebration this year but hope to offer our normal calendar of events in 2021. I wish you all a Happy Holiday and looking forward to exciting things to come for the club in the New Year. January marks the beginning of a major irrigation project on the golf course. The current irrigation system is almost 30 years old and we have seen significant deterioration over the years. The project is scheduled to start January 11th and will continue until April. The golf course will not be closed during this process. They will work on one hole at a time and we will play around it. Below is the scope of work that will be completed:
Jason Seehafer Porters Neck General Manager
Golf The pumpstation will be replaced on January 19th tentatively (new pumps, motors and control system ) water will be off for 4-5 days. We are switching over to a two-wire system, so there will be no gray control boxes out on the course. The system has a central control panel that will be in the course maintenance office. The entire system will be controlled via iPad or cell phone. Over 18 miles of wire will be run throughout the golf course. Every head in the fairways, rough and tees will be replaced with new heads. So, every head will be leveled when they are done. We will have single head control for watering. We will have better control of watering with single head control.
Estimate of over 900 sprinkler heads will be replaced. Each head has a 460 microchip in the head, so we have two-way communication. The head talks back to the central and lets the central know when it has activated. We are redoing the irrigation around the greens with new irrigation, heads and better spacing. We are starting at the course maintenance building and working our way out. Hole 8 will be the first hole and we will decide how we go after hole has been completed. When the contractor is working on that hole that hole will be closed. So, we when we get to the range it may be closed for several days in a row. During the process we will have the course GPS marked: heads, drainage, and with this data we will have a very detailed as built plan.
Food and Beverage We look forward to officially welcoming Chef James Patterson (JP) to Porters Neck. He will begin the 1st week of January. We have added four new industrial heaters to the Clubhouse Patio, as part of our ongoing efforts of utilizing the Clubhouse Patio year round. Our Curbside or 'To-Go, order pick-up times have been adjusted to every 30 minutes. The times are 5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm, 6:30pm, 7pm, and 7:30pm. Depending on business volume in the restaurant, 6:30 and 7pm may be limited to a certain amount of orders
McConnell Golf App The McConnell Golf App will be available to Porters Neck members in January, 2021! You will be able to make tee times, court, gym and dining reservations, pay your bill AND receive club news ... all on the app. Look for more details, including instructional videos to follow shortly. POST
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