Ghost Creek Course, Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club - North Plains, Oregon

Ghost Creek’s Robert Cupp-designed layout took little time establishing itself as one of the nation’s premier semi-private golf courses. Nestled next to its sister course, Witch Hollow, the two courses make up Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, which opened for play in 1992.

Among other accolades, Ghost Creek was chosen to host the NIKE TOUR Championships in 1993 and 1994 and was rated among Golf Magazine’s Top 100 Places You Can Play in 2005.

Golf course senior superintendent Bill Webster keeps the course lean and dry with a focus on thatch removal and sand topdressing. Ghost Creek is prone to typical northwest disease problems, often precipitated by short spurts of extreme weather. Webster incorporates seasonal preventative programs to control snow molds, dollar spot and summer stress diseases.

Webster integrated Insignia® fungicideinto his program last winter to tackle snow molds and continued with applications in July and August to control pythium blight, anthracnose and leaf spot. Webster used a range of preventive and curative rates based on the conditions of each green.

“Insignia helps prevent and cure a broad scope of diseases, and has a long length of control,” said Webster. “In the summer, we see two to three weeks of control whereas other products may only cover up to a week or two at most. Insignia helps us overlap coverage and protection for the course.”