On The Course April 7th

Fairways were mowed on Friday

 Friday was a busy day for us getting all of the primary turf mowed after an extensive frost delay. Just have to remember it is still the first week of April and we have some colder temperatures moving in for early next week. Despite the frost delay yesterday we were able to get the greens mowed and rolled. The Tees, Collars, Approaches, Fairways and Intermediate rough was mowed. Troy changed all of the cups and Jose Sanchez worked on Tee Service.

Jason and Troy were able to get our Direct Drive irrigation motor up and running and we were able to run a night cycle of water last night. We have been trying to keep the course as dry as possible and I had a few comments yesterday on how the fairways were rolling a little bit. We did have to water fairways and tees last night and we only had one stuck head this morning on #8 Tee. The system collects rust in the old steel pipes which usually causes irrigation heads to stick on for the first couple of irrigation cycles.

This morning we are rolling greens and mowing some rough areas. We will continue to be cart path only until late next week when we might allow carts off the path. If the turf begins to actively grow we will let carts off the path and if you remember from last year we had carts on the path almost until May 1st. The range tee has been gaining a lot of ground over the last two weeks and we might be opening the turf tee late next week if the weather continues to be above normal temperatures. The cover helps keep the soil temperature high enough to promote turf growth. There is no frost on the course this morning and we will be ready for a full day of golf. There are some spotty showers that could show up later this morning but there doesn't appear to be much on the radar.

Intermediate rough around the fairways has been mowed but we have not mowed the Walkpaths.

Bunkers have been edged and we will be adding sand to them next week.