Spring snow

It's a beautiful Sunday morning. I hope you get a chance to check out the course today. The forecast is not good for the rest of the week. We will just have to wait and see how much snow we get. With the chance of measurable snow I decided to apply another application of fungicide for snow mold. This time of year we are treating for pink snow mold.  Pink snow mold can develope just from freezing and thawing temperatures. With the fungicide application we should be protected till the spring. 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. 

See you on the course!!

Ross

Brushes on mower head

We just installed a set of solid brushes on one of our tee and collar mowers. This is the first we are using this type of brush. The brush will slightly stand the grass up up providing us with a better quality of cut. I will let you know how the brushes are doing once we start using the mower this season. 

Yes front nine greens are open today!! 

Walkers only. 

Golf Course Condition

A couple of tools in the maintenance cart this time of year are a 6" knife and a long screw driver. The knife is for checking moisture content of the upper layer of the greens root zone and the screw driver is to check the depth of the frost.

The picture below is showing the screwdriver being used to check frost level on 17 green. Note the black tape is at 7", that is the depth needed to cut new cup locations.  This area is thawed to 4.5".

As of Wednesday evening the greens were thawed to an average depth of 3-5".  Also noticed last evening that the mounds on 5 green are getting dry, the mounds had very little snow on them this winter.  Tomorrow we will get out the water tank to take care of any dry areas as needed.
    

Each day we are getting close we will see you on the course soon !!

Irrigation pump

During the past winter we had our 75 hp irrigation pump rebuilt. New bearings, seals and a total cleaning / inspection of all the other internal parts. 

Here is a photo of the pump ready to be bolted in place, it is the blue colored one.

 

Is spring here?

It only takes a few days of nice weather and it feels like spring. Took a little tour of the course this morning. From what I can see the turf looks to be in good shape for the upcoming golf season.  The picture below is of 17 green. When the golf season will start is still unknown. I hope to see you on the course soon!!