On The Course May 3rd

Gabriel and Fernando happy about the sunny day last Saturday. They are not as happy today with 30 degree temperatures.

 The golf course is open but we are again in a cold snap with a potential of a winter mix of snow and rain later today. Hopefully it stays to the East of the golf course. The crew has been really busy getting the gold course cleaned up and playable. Overall we are pretty happy with the way the course has wintered and look forward to a great golf season. We need some warm temperatures to get the turfgrass growing and be able to get some work done on the golf course.

Brandon was cleaning out main line valves yesterday and was still finding some of them to be frozen. We will be charging the irrigation system next week in preparation of doing some fertilizing and seeding. There are some ice damage areas of the fairways that we will be seeding and a couple areas we will be sodding. We have lost almost 4 weeks of project time and golf course preparation time with the late snow storms. We will be working hard the next couple of weeks to catch up and complete some of the normal spring tasks.

We have mowed most of the fine turf areas of the golf course at least one time. The rough is still pretty slow to come out of winter dormancy and Sheldon is itching to get back on the rough mower. Yesterday, we placed some evergreen growth covers on a section of 18 fairway to help promote growth and recovery from some ice damage. We will be aerifying and seeding this area next week. The turf part of the range tee is progressing nicely and we should be able to open the turf part of the tee late next week. We will continue to hit off of the mats until then.

JD has a very nice new ball mark repair tool in the Pro Shop that is a must have for everyone. I will be working on posting a video of how I like to repair ball marks and some different techniques to make sure they are repaired properly. A ball mark repaired right away and correctly will leave no blemish to the green. A ball mark left unattended takes a long time to heal.

Sheldon Pigeon mowing greens for the first time this season.

Drainage holes that were drilled last fall definitely helped get us through the winter

18 Green wintered very well.