Spring Has Sprung

Weather conditions have been border line perfect over the past couple of days. We have had great sunshine and some very comfortable temperatures. The current weather conditions have allowed our staff to stay very busy and make some good progress on some projects around the golf course. We finally got the new practice putting green seeded on Monday morning before the winds kicked up. The process went very smoothly. Hopefully we will start to see some germination in the next 10-15 days. Forecast ahead should be favorable so we are keeping our fingers crossed. Also then end of last week we were fortunate enough to have a cart path concrete extension poured by the putting green to help assist with some traffic congestion and hopefully to help spread out the foot traffic on and off the new green. I am very excited for the green and I think it is going to be a huge improvement for the club. I have attached a picture below showing the green seeded. If you are standing near the green be on the look out for the irrigation heads to come on. They are coming on every hour right now to try and get the seed to germinate and grow. Also this week we have started our preventative spring fungicide application on our zoysia fairways, tees, and bunker faces. This product will help to prevent and minimize any of those big nasty cooper colored disease spots (zoysia patch) that pop up during the spring. Another big item we have been working on is getting the native grass areas burned. I am happy to say that as I am writing this post we are finishing up and are going to get all areas burned that we wanted to do before the April 1st burn ban. I attached a video below showing the native on the left side of #14 burning. If you haven't seen this in person it is quite a show and that area burns really hot and really fast. I thought you all would enjoy seeing it for yourselves. If you want to see more you will have to stop me and ask to see some video on my phone I have quite a collection! Have a great week and enjoy the weather. Just another reminder that we will be aerifying the greens on Monday and Tuesday April 6th and 7th. The club will be completely closed on Monday the 6th and will re-open the practice facilities only on Tuesday April 7th.