Hello! We hope that you had a great Thanksgiving break and didn't eat to much!! It might be a bit chilly out there but still come on out to the course and play a round or two! We are open and ready for play! When you do come out you might notice or have noticed our new rock fence lining the range and parking lot. We had to do that because we have been getting broken into for the past three to four months now. They have stolen gas, carts, equipment and have broken into our clubhouse on occasion. Your cars are totally safe if you are worried about that, they have only come really late at night. We have cameras now and a security company to come to the course at a moments notice. But we added the rock wall because our white fence was not really a fence. You can just pull it apart and drive a cart right through. With these new rocks, we spaced them three feet apart so carts cannot drive through. We will be taking down the white fence now that all our rocks are placed.
Heart of America Golf Course
Located in KCMO, Home of Tom Watson Golf Academy and 4 Courses: Par 35, 9 Hole Course. Par 3 Golf Course. FootGolf Course. 3 Hole Youth Course. Large Practice Facility.
Monday, December 5, 2022
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Hello everyone!! It has been a while since the last blog post, but we have decided to start once again! We had a dry 2022 so we couldn't spend as much time on the blog post as we would of liked during the summer months. Now the leaves are falling just like the temperature. If you have been on the course recently you might have noticed all the leaves falling and covering the greens, tees and fairways. Which makes finding your ball just that much harder!! We have been blowing leaves pretty much every day now and there are still loads of leaves everywhere. We hope that you are patient with us and with the leaves that are getting blown back onto the greens by the wind. It is a constant battle everyday and every year for us and many golf courses around town. We hope you guys come out and play the course and hit on our driving range! We are now down in front of the range tee ever since we seeded the tee area. Please try to stay off the tee, it is still growing and the roots need some time to get established.
Hunter Hill
Assistant Superintendent
Heart of America Golf Course
Monday, June 7, 2021
Rain, Rain and more RAIN! These past couple weeks have been just nothing but rain. It's been tough to keep the course looking trimmed and in order because of it. But we are doing our best so we all hope you are patient with us while we get to course back to normal again. Even though we have gotten so much rain, we have been running mowers nonstop trying to keep up with how fast the grass has been growing. It has been difficult to mow the fairways without tearing up turf, because of the rain. Also the fairways have been sprouting up seed heads which makes cutting them quite difficult for the mower. With the amount of rain we received the river flooded over the first bridge and deposited a lot of trees and branches. We cut up a big tree trunk that was blocking the path and pushed it into the river. We were fortunately though, with the amount of rain we got we were surprised that the river didn't flood more of the course. But we were lucky that didn't happen. Now that it is officially summer time we should be seeing warmer and drier days ahead of us! We hope everyone is staying dry and healthy!
Hunter Hill
Assistant Superintendent
Heart of America Golf Course
Monday, May 10, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Spring is Here
Spring has officially arrived and the golf course is starting to come alive.
The maintenance staff at HOA has been busy getting things back into shape for the spring and summer playing seasons. We put some fertilizer on the grass range tee to wake it up and get it growing, it has been mowed once so far and is looking great. I know people are itching to start hitting range balls off the grass tee and we are only a couple weeks from opening it back up. We have also done a few little things to make the course a little nicer. First of all we built a new scorecard and pencil box for the first tee on the river course, in the past we have used a mail box to house cards and pencils, the mail box never really worked very well and didn't look very nice. The new box is made from rough cedar and will match the other wood signs we have on the course. Speaking of signs, we completely re finished the sign at the entrance to the river course. Lastly we finally put out our new cups, flags, and flag sticks on the river course. We went with a new color combination this year, the flags are yellow and black checkered pattern instead of blue and white, and the flag sticks are yellow instead of white. We hope these yellow flags and sticks will be a little easier to see.
We hope to see you out here, and never hesitate to stop and ask us questions or offer suggestions on how we can continue to try and make HOA the best golf course it can be.
Sam Marlin
Superintendent
smarlin@orion-mgmt.com
Monday, March 1, 2021
More tree work
Friday, January 29, 2021
Tree Work
Hello! We hope everyone is having a nice winter and hope that everyone is staying warm these past couple of weeks! When the weather is cooperative and warm we are open! So we encourage everyone to come on out and play a round with your friends and family!!
The course does have a bit of snow on the ground so sadly we wont be open for a few days at least but as soon as it melts off the course will be good to go for everyone that would love to play. If you have not been to the course for the past couple days, we have cut down a few trees on number 4 right before the fairway. Four on the left side and one on the right side. We did this so it would open the hole up a bit more and be a bit easier to play. Now you can hit to the left side and not be in too much trouble. Also we had found a boat load of golf balls down in that native grass just off the tee box so if there is anyone that wants some free balls go check that spot out!! Those aren't the only trees we will be cutting down though. There are a couple of trees in the range that have been sick looking and or just plain dead. So we will be taking a few trees out of the range as well. Also we took out the two little trees right out side the front entrance of the club house. They were getting a bit big for their location so we took them out. The next project we will be undertaking is the cart path on the rock course. It's over grown and it needs to be trimmed back so you aren't being hit when you drive on it. So we will be cutting back along the cart path from nine green all the way to seven tee box.
We have also been getting machines ready for this up coming season. Grinding reels on mowers, changing oil, oil filters and air filters on all the machines. But we have the machines pretty much finished up so we can focus on the golf course when the weather warms up so this season will be a good one for you! Stay warm and stay safe out there!
Hunter Hill
Assistant Superintendent
Heart of America Golf Course