May 29 Update

Hye Folks,

Hope all are well. The golf course is open and the damaged areas are beginning to fill in, however this has to be one of the coldest springs in a while.

As of now we have five temporary greens and four greens with mats on them. On Tuesday we are going to open five green and later in the week most likely 14 green. The guys have been working hard to prep those areas for opening. Five green has made great progress, most of the damaged areas have coalesced to the point where we can plug them out. There are still two 10ft by 10ft areas that are stubbornly not filling in. When the green is open will leave smaller mats on those areas to keep the traffic off. 14 will be a similar experience, but the back being closed instead of the middle.

Three, 13 and six will take a little longer, as the damage is more wide spread, but we will get them open as soon as possible.

As of this week we have fertilized all surfaces on the golf course, Greens, Tees, Rough and Fairways. By Tuesday we will begin to open the fairways for regular traffic, as most of the seed that will have caught by now. There will be some roped or matted areas that we would like you to avoid playing or driving on, as they are the more difficult areas we are recovering.

As you can imagine, the extra work around the repairing the greens has eaten up a lot of our resources for the spring. This delays some of our normal practices. Please be patience with the staff as the we work to get the course back into shape.

For those of you interested in the reasons for the slow recovery you don’t have to look much farther than the GDD10 numbers that I have talked about lately. Growing Degrees Days are a metric used to measure the potential growth of plants based on accumulative temperatures. Each spring is listed below in correlation with the opening date.

Here are the Photos for this week:

Stay tuned for further info!