Stinkin' Elk

This year we have seen an abundance of elk on the golf course. Elk seem to use the golf course as their main thoroughfare from Lookout Mountain to South Table Mountain (I don't know what's over there that they want, but that's where they like to go). We have put out signs for them to stay off the golf course but they just ignore them. Usually we see them mostly in the fall and winter, but this year has been different in the fact that they seemed to have stayed around all summer.

Each year during the "rut" the males go around and try to get as many females as they can rounded up for mating. During this process, they do all kinds of crazy things. However, they don't wear knickers. But they do do other crazy things like tear up small trees, pee all over themselves, roll around in mud--all for the females. Fortunately, MOST humans don't do this.

Check out these pics of what a bull elk did the other night to one of our Locust trees out next to the cartpath on hole #18. You can see that this tree was a good sized tree, and it was snapped off at about 6-7 feet high--so that bull was probably a good sized animal.

Now one thing I would like to mention about this blog. My purpose is to use this as a place for information about what is going on here at the golf course. I hope people find it useful, informative, and hopefully a pleasure to read. I will not use it for promoting products, my opinions, or any other type of shameless advertisements for stuff that I think you should buy or use, etc. For example, if there were a particular type of "cell phone" that I was partial to--you know, one that really sets the standard for all mobile phones, one that has limitless possibilities, one that is the "cat's meow", etc., I would definitely not use this forum to promote it. But anyway, look what that elk did to this tree: