Winter is arriving early it appears.  What a cold Sunday we are having with the temperature at least twenty degrees below normal.  On Saturday we did some final watering and then drained the irrigation system.  It will be blown out with compressed air in a few weeks. Final fungicide applications were made to all the greens, tees and fairways as well as a herbicide to the new rough to control annual bluegrass.  Bunker work is continuing and nearing completion.  Leaf blowing and mulching is almost complete as well.  The cold wind this weekend has really brought them down.

 

The fairways are young and tender.  This is cart damage to the eighth fairway from blowing leaves.  Seeing this kind of damage influenced our decision to wait till spring to open the course.

 

 

The third fairway continues to fill in.  This will improve rapidly in the spring.

 

 

Another view of the third hole.

 

 

Erik applying fungicides and chelated iron to the fifth hole.  Iron helps improve winter hardiness.

 

 

Crystal BlueLinks bent on our green nursery.  This variety of bent has good shade tolerance and was interseeded into many of our shady greens.

 

 

It is easy to tell where we seeded.  This picture shows dormant bermudagrass adjacent to the renovated rough and fairway on the eighteenth hole.

 

The fifteenth hole.

 

 

Number sixteen.  The light and dark pattern on the fairway is created by the mowers running in a counterclockwise pattern.  This allows the mowers to stay off the tender rough as much as possible.