Course Update

Following the best month of March weather wise we have seen in many years, we have experienced a dry, cool and windy April.  As the growing season has now begun, grass has started to slowly wake up and the maintenance crew has started focusing on the detail work around the course.  Fairways and short grass areas are starting to show their striping patterns and features around the course are starting to take shape.

The golf course greens have played extremely fast and have rolled smooth to date.  As the temperatures warm up over the next weeks we will see a decrease in green speed.  This is due to the flush of growth we come to expect every spring.  The greens crew will be working hard at balancing the turf growth with maintenance practices to provide good greens and speeds.

We have a couple of low lying areas on fairways that water accumulates in, after rain and heavy watering.  We have started addressing these areas around the golf course.  The photos below show the before and after of an area on the left side of #16 fairway.

Fairway and rough heads on the course, provide yardage to the front, middle and back of our greens.  We trim around these sprinklers once a month as grass encroaches into the sprinkler.  Before and after pictures shown below of the grass surrounding the sprinkler heads trimmed to expose the yardage and a clean look