Hey everyone! We hope everyone is staying cool these past couple of weeks and have stayed dry. Here at Heart of America we have been busy trying to make the course at little easier to understand for new players! We have added signs! There are new signs around the course so new people understand which way they need to be going. They will help people trying to find #2 tee box, #5 tee box on the river. River and Rock signs are up to let people know what side of the course they are on as well. There are new signs in the parking lot so check those out the next time you come out to the course! We are also trying to get accurate yardage for the rock course for... you guessed it new signs!! We hope everyone is having a great year so far and to stay cool out there! 

Hunter Hill

Assistant Superintendent 

Heart of America Golf Course

Hello everyone! We hope everyone is doing well and keeping those scores as low as possible! If not we have added some new poles to the range to hit towards. In total we have added six new targets to the range. Three by the lower tee as short shots for short game play, and three more mixed in with the ones already there.  The larger ones are spaced out so there is less of a gap between the older poles, distance wise. Please download the HOA app! The app will have GPS coordinates for the poles and should help judge distances for you. If you have any questions please ask the club house staff for instructions. 

Yes the camera does add ten pounds. I am six foot with shoes, so these poles are large. 

    Also you might have noticed some construction by our front gate and going west down our road. That is a new walking path the city is putting in that anyone can walk down if you are interested. It should be finished anytime in the next couple weeks. 

Hunter Hill

Assistant Superintendent 

Heart of America Golf Course

 Hello! We hope everyone is doing well and staying warm out there! We have had warm days and cold days these past couple of weeks but we are still open and hope everyone can make it out to play the course! If you have been out you might of seen us spraying fairways and tee boxes.  We are spraying a herbicide that will get rid of the unwanted weeds in the fairways and tees. This is the perfect time to spray because the zoysia fairways are dormant. That means it's not actively growing and we can spray it and the plant will not take up the herbicide and die. But the cool season plants/weeds are still actively growing and will take up the herbicide. The rough that is still green and still growing can take the herbicide that we sprayed and die. So we need to be extra careful near the edges of the fairways and close to the greens so we don't get any drift from the wind and accidentally spray the greens. We have to actively watch the weather and make sure we spray when there is little to no wind. If you are spraying at home please make sure you are using proper safety gear and also make sure that you are checking the weather for low winds so you don't have any angry neighbors! Also we put a dye in the tank so we can see where we have been, that is why the fairways have been a bluish green.  

Hunter Hill

Assistant Superintendent

Heart of America Golf Course