It's Opening Day!  What a great day to start the 2019 golf season.  The crew has been extremely busy preparing the course for this year and the work continues.  The entire rough on the course has been aerated and weak areas seeded.  On Monday the club grounds will be done. Fairways are scheduled to be contract aerated on Monday April 8th.  We will seed bermudagrass infested areas in the fairways at this time.  With some luck we hope to improve our bentgrass stand.

 

It's Opening Day!

 

 

Our greens are in great shape so early in the season.  Yours truly applied the first growth regulator to suppress annual bluegrass seed heads on Friday.  This will be repeated in several weeks.

 

 

Things are starting to grow.  Here's a pic of the ninth fairway on March 14th after our first mow followed by...

 

 

Two weeks later after mowing.

 

 

Soil temperatures are still low.  Big changes will occur once we hit 50 degrees.

 

 

One load of sod will arrive on Wednesday to repair marked areas.  The crew will start prep work on Monday morning.

 

 

Our last deluge caused this sinkhole at 11 bridge.

 

 

Another casualty from last season.  This bunker on 16 won't drain due to a crushed exit drain pipe on the 3rd hole.  This work will be completed this week.

 

 

Tracking the drain line.

 

 

Julio and the rest of the crew are doing some outstanding work renovating beds throughout the course.  We are using more landscape fabric and aluminum edging to reduce labor inputs.

 

 

Donna and Mina's bed. Gorgeous!

 

 

Everyone pitching in during Friday's frost delay readying the bed on nine. 

 

 

Not a great picture but it does tell a story. Amazing