On The Course March 17th

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Betty Soule and Jennifer Mendel were our first golfers of 2012

 We made very good progress yesterday with removing the excelsior mats from the greens. We ran into a few issues on a couple greens where the mat was frozen to the putting surface but we should be able to get those off the greens on Saturday. We started hauling mats to the barn and will continue Saturday and should be finished by Monday. The greens on the Executive course were mowed on Friday and are being rolled this morning. Please try to avoid the area on #1 and #2 of the Executive course that is bare soil. We have tilled in this area to establish a new fairway and it is still very wet.

Justin and Poa checking out the water flowing through a catch basin

 The golf course is draining well and the frost is coming out of the greens. We are blowing some of the debris off of the front nine greens today and will finish the back nine on Monday. We have a lot of work to accomplish this next week before we open. The trees are starting to bud out and the turf is starting to push through the winter chaf. We can only hope the weather pattern holds for the next couple of weeks and we can take advatage of an early golf season.

Still some ice on #14 green holding the mat to the putting surface

The big haul to the barn begins