Not Quite Yet!

After the warmer than normal February, March has turned back to normal winter conditions.  Over the next few days it looks like our snow cover should be gone.  I hate to say but last year at this time we were doing our spring cleanup cut on the fairways, tees, aprons and greens.  Each year is different and we will get the course open as soon as we can, this year's opening may be more of the norm than last year.  Generally speaking the course will open to walkers when the frost is out of the greens enough to cut a new hole location.  This gives the turf grass a chance to firm up slightly, walking on the mushy wet ground is very hard on turf plants as they break dormancy and can even cause fatal damage.

Show below is hole #8 on Saturday March 18.

The maintenance staff has the mowing equipment all ready to go.  We are now working on benches, ball washers, garbage cans and all course signage.  It is always nice starting out the season with a fresh new look on everything.  When possible we will be heading out on the course and start spring cleanup, hoping that will happen soon.

If you do want to hit the ball around the temporary hole locations are open, for now please stay off the putting surfaces until the course officially opens.

We will see you on the course soon!

Ross

Ice no More

Thank You February for being one of the warmest I can remember.  The warm temperatures melted all of our snow and ice.  What will the rest of the winter will bring is unknown, but for now we are in good shape.

One of our focuses during the off season; is addressing the inconsistencies of our collars and approaches.  We have some varieties of grass in these areas, this gives us a bit on an inconsistent playing surface.  In the past we were using our bunker leaf rake attachment to help stand the grass up before cutting, this marginally worked.  So this winter we modified one of our old bunker rake attachments.  The result is a new broom/brush attachment to go on our existing machine.  As shown below the new attachment, with broom heads, will have the  same working width but should stand the grass up even better for a more consistent final product.  There may be some final modifications, after a quick demo looks to work really well.  We may even look to use on other areas of the course including the greens.

Think Spring!

We will see you on the course soon!

Ross