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“I loved working at CPC from the start. Compared to the east coast, the workload was a lot less and more relaxed”


course is very traditional and kept looking like a course from the 1950s. The entire course is manicured to tournament standard everyday, but done in such a way that it doesn’t lose that feeling that you are somewhere very special. As soon as you arrive at Cypress Point you realise that you have arrived at a truly historical place.


I started working at Cypress


Point Club in March and was welcomed by Jeff Markow (CGCS Superintendent at CPC) and his entire crew, which included two assistant superintendents and around twenty crew members. I could see straight away that every single one of them was vital to the setup at CPC. Jeff Markow has been the superintendent for twenty years and has really made the course what it is today. The routines and procedures in place work perfectly, with almost all the crew able to do every job required to keep the standards high. To begin with I was the only intern, so Jeff told me that I would mainly be spraying, but would also help with construction projects from time to time. I loved working at CPC


from the start. Compared to the east coast, the workload was a lot less and the atmosphere more relaxed as the stresses of day to day work was less, even though the


expectation levels are still extremely high. With the Northern California climate, there was no need to be working long hours and, with most days not getting above 70O


F (21O C), it


almost had an English summer feeling, the only difference being that, when we reached May, it stopped raining and wouldn’t rain again until at least mid- October! Cypress Point Club is


currently re-installing ‘original design’ bunkers, using old pictures from the 1930s to recreate the shapes. It was great to see what the course used to look like back then and, as this was something I had never seen done before, was great to be involved in. CPC has set routines for most jobs. For example, when mowing greens, they have five sections, with one guy each, taking care of four greens, whilst they share the two chipping greens and two nursery greens on a rota. Each section is responsible for mowing their greens, raking their bunkers, repairing pitch marks and blowing. The fairways, tees and


approaches are mown three times a week, and cups are changed five times a week. The machinery used is mainly Toro, the small rough mowers are John Deere and then some of the specialist


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