Weather and course update

"How is this weather affecting the golf course?" Many members have asked me this question over the past few weeks. First thing, Mother Nature always seems to have a way of evening things out. We mowed greens 24 days earlier this year than in 2015. Since then, they have been cut four more times. Fairways and tees have been cut twice this year, but not at all in the past ten days and we cut them for the first time in 2015 on April 12th. By the time we get to the weekend, I feel the turf will be in about the same state as last year at the same time. With that being said, the cold wet weather has made the course a swamp. Most of the tree work has been cleaned up, soiled and seeded, but with bare ground until the seed germinates it is very muddy. We need warm weather and sunshine to get these areas to germinate and produce grass. The next 8 days will be huge if the forecast holds true and we get some sunlight along with dry conditions. Our goals over the next week once we dry out are to mow the entire course, spray both greens, tees, and fairways with fertilizer, fungicide, and growth regulator and continue to do spring cleanup around the course. Next Monday through Thursday the Weiskopf course will be closed so we can aerate the greens and tees and slice the fairways. The greens will get a 1/4" core pulled, which is half the size time we used in the fall. They should heal very quick. We usually do not pull a core on tees in the spring, but with the extra play this past fall, winter and this spring, we need to to help get the tees growing and smooth out all the extra divots. As always if you have any questions please feel free to call, email or stop me around the course. Here's to good weather!

Good look from the putting green before the snow on Wednesday

Same view on Friday