Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Long Winter, Will Show On Course Turf.




The long winter is finally starting to let up a bit lately.  We were, just yesterday, able to see some of the turf under all the ice and snow present all winter.  Yesterday we made a drastic move in trying to remove the ice and snow off of the 6th green.   As shown above, we used the front end loader to remove snow from the frozen green.  We need to get oxygen to the green as soon as possible., so with the upcoming temps , we decided to remove as much snow while we can.  The lower picture of 6 green is just with 1 day of thawing. The green had on average, 2' of snow on it yesterday, so we probably saved a few days by physically removing the snow.  The bottom picture shows the middle of the 16th green where water tends to collect and sit.  The ice present there all winter has severely stunted the turf in the low spot.  We can expect this area will take longer this spring to fill in and green up.  We still have yet to see under the ice of the 6th green but we are hopeful that when it thaws the turf will be fine.  Any thin or stunted areas on the greens will be overseeded and pushed to fill in with all means necessary going forward.  Let's think warm temperatures!

Mike O'Neill, GCS

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