Course of the Week: Seven Oaks CC

Seven Oaks CC in Bakersfield, Calif., is a 27-hole private facility designed by architect Robert Muir Grave. It features three nines – The Oaks, The Lakes and The Islands – and is full of protected San Joaquin kit foxes, an endanger species.

Martin Morozowsky, Seven Oaks’ superintendent, still overseeds wall-to-wall.

“Our summer is going OK for three years without any rain,” Morozowsky says. “We are on our eighth consecutive day of over 100 degrees, and it’s our 14th day this summer over 100.”

Morozowsky, a Southern California and San Diego Superintendents Association member and a 17-year GCSAA member, has been at Seven Oaks CC for seven years. Among many courses in California, he worked with Korean owner (SR Mutual) at California CC in Whittier, and as director of maintenance for two other golf courses, Palm Desert Resort and Eagle GC in Escondido. He is a graduate of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

“I always wanted to be a superintendent,” Morozowsky says. “I grew up a son of a Gardner in Santa Barbara (California) so it was a natural fit.”