Monday, September 9, 2013

From a fellow Superintendent

I was compelled to share this! 

 


 

Good morning,

 

A good friend of mine recently sent me a link to a video and as I watched it I felt compelled to share with as many people as I could, particularly family, friends, and colleagues. For “cliff notes”, the video is about a father,  daughter, a flag, and a question: “Why did you hang the flag today?”  Putting Up the Flag

 

With the anniversary of 9/11quickly approaching, we are reminded that our freedoms are not as “free” as we once knew and certain freedoms go unrecognized as even being considered a freedom. As Americans, we sometimes take our everyday simplest freedoms for granite forgetting the sacrifice so many gave and continue to give with the possibility of nothing in return.  

 

For many of us it could be one last check on your wife or kids while they’re still sound asleep as you try to quietly leave the house before daylight……sipping your coffee infused with your favorite creamer as you listen to the morning weather report along a empty highway……then calling your assistants or mechanics because of an idea or adjustment you have for the daily operations that woke you around 2:00 am……walking into the shop receiving “good morning’s” from your team that may come in different languages reminding you to congratulate one of your young Hispanic guys on his American Citizenship he received just a week ago……jumping into your cart for the short ride to your “actual” office and having that sweet aroma of fresh cut grass hit you while headlights from overpriced equipment beam in all directions……then you make the “turn” to see the piercing light shine through the trees from the sunrise onto God’s glorious creation reminding you of that rhetorical question, “This is what I get paid to do?”

 

So as I finished the video, it became evident to me the reasons “why we hang OURflag!”

 

 

 

 

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                                         *flag hanging in our shop

 

 

Thank you and God bless all who have served and continue to serve for the sacrifice they made giving me and my family, friends, and colleagues

 

Ryan Mckuhen

Golf Course Superintendent

Jupiter Island Club


 

Featured hole! Number 13

Par 3 
Measures 99 to 108 yards. 
This green was rebuilt this past summer it was enlarged by 450 ft.² and we created two shelves to give plateaus for putting 
in the past the green slopes severely to the front so it was unfair to putt down the front. 
 now we have some undulations in the green that gives a more realistic chance of making a birdie putt when you hit your tee shot on that shelf.