2024 MGCSA Stewardship Grant Recipient: MINNEWASKA GOLF CLUB By: Brady Scott
“Make do with what you have.” These were wise words that I was told as a younger person. It was not meant to be dismissive, nor to embed a sense of passiveness or complacency. Rather the opposite in my mind. The message to me was to take a good look at what I had, appreciate it and make the 26
most of it. Fast forward a few decades, I was not as young, the Superintendent at Minnewaska Golf Club and doing my best to make do with what I had, particularly in the irrigation department. The irrigation system at Minnewaska Golf Club is aging. When installed
over 30 years prior, a thin walled PVC pipe was used. After years of the friction from water flow and the freeze-thaw cycle that Minnesota is famous for, the pipe became thinner and brittle. Tees, bellends, big and small were all breaking, without bias. The true solution to this would be to install a new