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 !!