This picture was taken 2 weeks ago. April 6th was the first day we could get a cart on the course and move around. My hat is off to our grounds crew for a quick clean up and some long days working around rains and inclement weather.
Course Conditions
Other than some snow mold disease we see on some of the tees, the course came through the winter looking healthy.
Worms/castings will soon be an issue in fairways and will be managed when they appear to be causing quality issues. Over the next 2 weeks crabgrass control is being applied from tee through green. We'll do our best to avoid play, but we'd appreciate, and recommend, steering wide of the tractor spreader if you find yourself in the same area.
Projects
Tees and trees were/are the big work projects this winter and spring. 3 tee has been finished and 16 is ready but for a final coat of topsoil and seeding. Tree work was done mostly over winter and early this spring.
Trees removed were either in poor health or creating thin turf and a poor growing environment for adjacent tees and greens.
The mess down around the creek on 10 and 11 started with dredging the creek over winter. Cleaning up such a wet area is slow work. We made some progress on it over the weekend and added a new catch basin and another drainage ditch (and did the same on the 11 tee side). The drier it gets, the sooner we can get in there and finish what we began.
The large pile of logs between 6 and 7 are being stored there until we have the time to dispose of them. This will likely be when the college kids arrive and we have more hands on deck.
Any trees we removed had the stumps pulled out as well. These holes will be filled as weather and dry topsoil allows.
We'll see you out there.
