We are going to hit 30 days after seeding our greens this coming weekend (May 16,17 and 18th to be factual). Even though we have encountered some frustrating cool weather, we have been able to make some significant progress especially from the warm rains over the past 7 days. All of the greens are showing significant recovery but will remain out of play at the moment. At this point we have a very mixed bag of greens in our recovery process, which range from looking very fairly close to being put back in play to a handful of greens that it is too early to make that determination. This is too be expected, where in general, the greens that are closer to play had less winter damage and grass that survived, where the greens with excess of 80% winter kill will be recovering from almost all seed.
Pictures of a couple examples from both ends of the spectrum.
#9 Green - Approximately 1/3 of this green appeared alive in mid April. Also there were signs of other grass in a dormant state making a recovery.
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| 9 Green Mid April |
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| 9 Green Mid May |
#18 Green - 90% of this green suffered winter kill. There has been a small portion of this green that was dormant and trying to rebound, but a large part of this greens recovery is relying on new seedlings.
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| 18 Green Mid April |
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| 18 Green Mid May |
As the pictures show, 9 green will be ready for play earlier then 18 green. Not to be discouraged. As we have started to mow all of the greens, we continue to see positive improvements, where the seedlings are becoming dense and starting to fill in the voids between them.
As we look at these pictures of the greens on weekly and monthly comparisons we notice very positive results. We will continue to show progress pictures of the greens weekly.
