On The Course March 14th

Above is a video of the course from March 13th. Over the next couple of days the course will dramatically change and we will be making some more videos to share. We are excited to get the season started and with the current weather it should make for a record opening.

We currently still have some frost in the soil but with the nightime temperatures in the low 50's and the daytime highs hitting records in the 70's we expect the frost to be short lived. Once the frost comes out of the ground and the Excelsior mats that have been protecting the greens all winter are dry we will start to remove them. Currently they are still a little wet on the turf surface. They should be dry enough to start to roll up Thursday. It will take us a couple days to get the mats off of the greens and a couple days to let the greens dry out enough before we would be able to get foot traffic on them.

The greens on the Executive course has thawed out and is drying out. We have the Executive Course Closed for the time being but we expect to open it up on Thursday of this week. If you see flagsticks out on the Executive Course we have it open. JD and I have been touring the course and we should be able to open the Driving Range Tee sometime on Friday. We will be utilizing the artificial mats for the first few weeks of the season and will have the turf grass portion of the tee covered to aid with growth.

We are having a Grounds Committee meeting Tuesday, March 20th and will be discussing the 2012 golf season.