Indian Creek hosts 107th Nebraska Amateur

 

 



Indian Creek is honored to be chosen as the host course for 2015 Nebraska Amateur. This annual event begins July 27^th and runs through July 30^th. This is an honor that isn’t bestowed to just anyone and we are extremely grateful and excited about the opportunity.

An event of this level brings with it a set of expectations and challenges, not only for the staff at Indian Creek, but also for our customer. In order to provide the conditions required to identify the state’s best player, we will need to make modifications to the way we maintain the course now and through the event’s completion on July 30^th. Most changes will be minor and many will be appreciated by the customer, but some will make the course play more difficult for the time being.

In particular, increased rough heights, although temporary, may be an unwelcome change. “Why make the adjustment 3 weeks in advance?” This is a valid question and there are multiple reasons. The simplest, and maybe most important, reason is related directly to weather. The unseasonably cool, wet weather has allowed us the ability to manipulate mowing heights in real time through this first week of July, which is very uncommon. If weather patterns remained unchanged we could get away with making height changes a week out. Unfortunately, Mother Nature is unpredictable. Although today’s weather would allow for height increases to occur closer to the event, odds are, we will get hotter and drier and lose the ability to grow the rough out in short order. We are trying to get ahead of that by establishing tournaments heights while possible.

 

In regards to this issue, I cannot stress enough that this is temporary. Every effort, including bringing in extra mowers from off-site on the 30th, will go into reestablishing our normal mowing heights as soon as the event concludes. Please understand that no one at our facility trivializes the effect that long rough has on playability for any caliber of golfer. Our goal, everyday, is to provide high-end playing surfaces that challenge the low handicappers, yet allow the high handicappers an opportunity to enjoy a fun and fair round.

Trying to manage a facility for both daily fee golf and high level tournament play is difficult. We have a responsibility to you, our customer, as well as the NGA and its event. We will do everything in our power to try and find a balance in regards to course set up and we also ask for your patience in the process.

For our most loyal and consistent customers, look at this as an opportunity to show the state of Nebraska that Indian Creek deserves a seat alongside the best facilities in the Midwest. Take pride in your course as we prepare it for its biggest test to date.

Thank you all for your loyalty and understanding as we prepare for this event.