The past two Sundays, we have allowed play on the Weiskopf course and the regular greens. Hopefully, we can have an early spring and have much more golf in the near future. A couple observations while checking things out this week. Without tee markers, please spread out divots and replace them on the par 3 tees. This will help the tees to not have big areas of concentrated divots in the spring. The grass is not growing and seed will not germinate with cold air and ground temperatures. PLEASE repair ball marks. This is always the case, but with the grass not growing and with us not mowing, topdressing, etc, it is imperative to fix ball marks. Another key thing is checking in with the proshop and seeing what the rules are for the day. Some days the greens are in a freeze/thaw period where the Devlin temporary greens are all that are open. If the course does not open until a specific time, please do not go on the course until then. You will see in a picture below how someone walked on the green with frost and left brown footprints that will take some time to recover. We will be going around Monday and chipping up all the brush and limbs that we have staged by the cart paths. We focus the cleanup efforts first on Weiskopf, so that one course can be in as good of shape as possible when the golf season starts. With most of the tree work on Devlin, it will be a slower process getting Devlin cleaned up. As always, please feel free to call or email me with any questions regarding the course. I look forward to seeing everyone soon playing golf.
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| Leave grass between the divots please so they can grow in from 4 directions. These four divots on top of each other will take a long time to heal. Thank you |
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| Poa/bent on #16 Devlin green looking good and healthy on March 1st |
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| Footprints left on the green from walking on the frost |
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| Not quite sure what made these frost marks, maybe some sort of animal |
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