Or a conversation, not just about how we're putting our resources and energy into just 18 holes or the golf course, but rather how we answer the need for all the recreation that happens out

there.

Brief front cap on uh what we're kind of going through, uh the irrigation covers.

So, yeah, you see those pictures, and uh like to give a thanks to Coltacomo who jumped on and helped me try to help figure this out.

I can say that uh when we were trying to figure out what was going on.

There was a lot of conversation to me and Grant, and there was a lot of head scratching, a lot of trying this and that, and we just were not seeing it come through in late May and June the way we wanted to, which is why we kind of decided to put something in the air.

Maybe there was something we weren't seeing, and there was.

We just really couldn't see what was happening on that ground level.

Uh and I kind of like to say the compounding factors are kind of it feels like a domino effect for what happened out there.

We had the irrigation coverage, which in 2025, which you can see on there.

I wish I would have thought to put something in the air so we could have saw this early on, and we would have been in front of it the season before.

Uh more on that later.

Uh super dry winter.

Lost our well.

Lightning hits it, it's out, it was out until the very beginning of September.

Had some things that were going good when we uncovered the greens when they looked great, May freeze, and we instantly, or not instantly, but very quickly after had a lot of trouble with our greens.

Uh amongst all that, and something we didn't need, hotter summer than we've had in a long time, especially in July.

So

let me just kind of cover just the uh irrigation portion of this.

You can see right here, a lot of these little circles that we weren't getting this.

The day that we flew that drone and we got these picks, we were on the phone with our golf course architect and our golf course installer.

They both pointed to the same thing.

They it was I mean, it's obvious you don't have to be an irrigation expert to see that we're not getting water.

So they recommended the nozzle changes and uh brought a little show and tell here.

This is one of our heads.

The part that the problem was this little guy right here, as you can see, it has a main nozzle up front, two nozzles in the

back.

So what and still we're we're still working through this.

There may be additional changes in the date, but basically one long throw, two short throws, differing uh differing distances.

So you can kind of see our main went from 62 to 70, our back nozzle went from 25 to 40, which I don't know if I'm got a consensus with Grant, but I feel like that did as much or more to try to cover up these spaces than anything.

They also apply more flow.

So, what staff had to do is go in to every one of these heads, change that out.

I did a lot of these, so you think I know how you get the idea.

This one goes in, then this back one goes out, and then this guy goes in.

So, that in my opinion, that change and what we saw moving forward, not to negate any of the work that Grant's crew was doing on the golf course, was the prime mover here from why we went from that.

This is hole number eight.

Uh, so you can see, and there was a lot of time on this one because this hole I thought was one of the worst on the course, but this is where it went to.

So, following up with some of what the architect told us they'd seen this in a different place and they blamed it on the wind, and that when this first started with the architect way back in 2024, there were some current concerns about throw.

We were told to trust and trusted.

We should have maybe verified a little bit better in 2025, which we covered, but this is what we found, and this is I think the prime mover of really why we got to this state, right?

And our community deserves better.

So this is the tough one because we obviously went into the winter last year with very weak turf.

This is a picture of the whole complex, which gives you an idea of scope.

Uh we had one of the dryest winters, which I don't have to tell anybody how much lack of snow we had last year.

We had one of the dry swingers, which I don't have to tell anybody how much lack of snow we had last year.

Works really great for crystals at the park, not so good for golf courses and turf.

We struggled in parks the same way.

We had trouble with water early on in parks.

So you can see this is kind of what led us to try to take the drone footage.

We could see all these little dots.

Sorry, this isn't looking right there.

We could see all these little dots, and so they were showing us that we probably had this situation where we had some irrigation, which led to the drone.

So very simply, I mean, it was a dry winter.

Dry runners don't help, not only for having water down, but they cover up greens.

But we had people hand watering all 27 greens, driving the car out and watering them so we can make sure that they're somewhat normal, I think.

But it's nice to have a bunch of snow sitting on there where we don't have to worry about

it.

Then this happens.

So we're already we know we're coming out of the winter week, we can see it everywhere.

And lightning hits our well, our main well, our biggest well responsible for really taking on the lion's share.