Encouraging your turff team to engage with members on the course for just a few minutes and describe what it is they are doing and why it's important and can't be done at other times goes along way towards member understanding and patience.

Not to be redundant with the rest of the contributors but communication is key. Making sure that the greens committee, board, and members are well informed regarding the goals and process of potentially disruptive maintenance activities can alleviate a lot of headaches. Blogs, newsletters, and social media are great tools. Make sure to include pictures of progress and challenges. Transparency creates trust.

Obviously the maintenance schedule is always a bommer when it comes to golf course management, but we need to understand that it is conducted this way to preserve the golf course in pristine conditions, in order to avoid conflict you can offer discounts, ask your neighboring courses for special rates for those two weeks or perhaps start a member-exchange program and last but not least, communicate coursework in a timmely manner, so that people can work around their schedules to find alternative playing options and nobody is caught off-guard