On The Course April 10th

A little snow on the course this morning with more on the way!

 When are we going to open? As soon as spring decides to show up we will get the 2013 golf season underway. We had the earliest opening of the golf course last season and we are looking at setting the record for the latest opening. I keep thinking it just takes a couple nice days to get everything where we need it to be to get the course open. I am not seeing any nice days in the long term forecast but it has got to turn at some point. There is 6-11 inches of snow in the forecast for tonight into tomorrow. It looks like we might have a couple of good days next week. We will see!

We have most of the covers ready to come off and the staff is ready. With the cold nights in the forecast for this week we thought it would be best to leave the greens protected a little bit longer. They look really good under the covers and we don't want them getting damaged by pulling the covers too early. We are monitoring soil temperatures and looking under them daily. They have not started to grow to this point. High temperatures in the middle 30's are not going to get them growing under the covers. We will need a couple of days in the 50's to get the snow to melt off and get the covers to dry out.

The crew is continuing to work on cleaning up debris from the tree trimming this winter. They have raked most of the small branches and debris into piles and Troy has been using a wood chipper to make some mulch for the walk paths on #7.

Troy chipping branches from our tree pruning.