Snow and Winter Weather

Finally we got our first measurable snowfall of the winter of 2014 overnight dropping 2"-3" in our area. I attached a picture of the golf course this morning showing the snow accumulation. The roads were a little slick this morning coming into work but have since cleared off nicely as the snow was more of a wet slushy snow than a real dry fluffy snow that tends to be around longer. It doesn't look to hang around long as temperatures are forecast to be in the 40's and 50's by early week next week before our next cold front hits during the middle of the week. On Monday when the temperatures were warm we were able to get out and mow the greens cleaning up the putting surfaces and rolling out the footprints that were present from all of the freeze thaw that we have been having. Also we were able to get out and get the bunkers all raked after last weekends rain and continue blowing the leaves. This week, as the weather has allowed, we have continued to work on the bunkers on #5 green complex installing the new liner and putting in new sand. Over time the old sand has built up around the edges of the bunkers from all the sand that is splashed out from golfers, blown around from the wind, and moved around from raking causing us to have to do some regrading of the bunker edges and faces to bring them back down to the original grade. I attached a picture below showing the white sand build up on top of the original soil grade. We hope to get the bunkers finished as soon as the weather cooperates and gets warm enough to allow the glue to dry. Have a great weekend!