Please Remember to Vary your Traffic Patterns

As a reminder to our members who question where they should drive or whether the "90 degree rule is in effect" just vary your drive patterns. The design of our course with the native grasses intermittently placed between the fairway and cart path does not lend itself to a true 90 degree rule.  Therefore it is extremely important that we vary where we drive.  It is evident at several locations on every hole that this action is not always practiced. Cart traffic can be very detrimental to turf.  We need to be even more aware of this potential issue now as the weather changes.  The Bermuda's growth pattern is transitioning from root to shoot.  This means instead of putting energy into leaf and recuperative development; the plants are storing carbohydrates in the roots for reemerging next Spring.  Driving a few feet either side of where the visible traffic pattern makes all the difference.  Varying cart traffic will help in maintaining our courses integrity and play ability.