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Celebrate Iced Tea Day Today!

Celebrate Iced Tea Day Today!

10 June 14   |   Golf   |  

What better way to celebrate today’s Iced Tea Day than with a chilled glass of iced tea with a twist of lemonade? This beverage is best known on the golf course as the Arnold Palmer, coined after “The King” of golf himself. As his popularity rose, so did his fan base, known as “Arnie’s Army”.  . . .

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Golden Ocala Offers Junior Golf Clinics!

Golden Ocala Offers Junior Golf Clinics!

06 June 14   |   Golf   |  

Written by Mike Cooney, Director of Golf. Looking for something for your kids to do this summer? Look no further, Junior Golf Clinics are being offered at Golden Ocala! Golf has been around for 500 years and is played by over 29,000,000 people in the United States alone. Let us help entertain your children by getting them . . .

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Beginning of Summer Marks Start of Aerification Season

Beginning of Summer Marks Start of Aerification Se...

03 June 14   |   Golf   |  

Written by Jack Creveling, our Golf Course Superintendent. This past week, the golf course was aerified, which is essential for short and long term plant health. Here is the process we executed on the golf course greens. Greens were aerified by a contract company with ¾” tines that reached a depth of 7 inches. This depth . . .

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Grade Adjustment on 6 Green for More Hole Locations

Grade Adjustment on 6 Green for More Hole Location...

19 May 14   |   Golf   |  

Written by Jack Creveling, our Golf Course Superintendent. Last week, the Golden Ocala Golf Course Maintenance Team adjusted the slope of 500 square feet of green on Hole 6 to create more possibilities for pin placement. Once the sod on the green was carefully cut out by our highly skilled and very experienced maintenance team, it . . .

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