Spring Cleanup!

Today we'll focus a lot of attention on cleanup around the golf course.  Suprisingly the golf course is pretty dry so we're going to try and utilize this day as much as possible before the rain comes in tomorrow and next week.  Tractors with blowers are working on the fairways to cleanup debris while another guy is working on tee boxes with a back pack blower.  Other guys have begun working on cutting down tallgrasses in the planter areas around the clubhouse and the golf course.  This spring we'll also be dividing the tallgrasses since they have become so over grown.  Dividing these plants is a common practice and needs to be done every few years to keep them under control.  Clubhouse detail work is beginning today as well.  Initial cleanup is the task at hand and then seeding areas where there was plow damage or turf decline will then take place. 

Some people have asked when the course is going to be open.  It will be yet a few weeks as the weather doesn't look to conducive to allowing people out and around the golf course.  As every other season walking will be allowed long before carts.  Frost heaving makes the ground soft and protecting the golf course from numerous amounts of traffic in the spring only benefits us for the long term health of the course.  Greens fall under the same category in that the melting frost layer makes things soft and can result in foot printing on the greens.  Today well be rolling the greens to help start firming them up and the XGD has helped in getting the water from melting snow and frost out of the immediate profile of the greens. 

Excitement builds as we begin to get the course ready for the season.  Stay tuned as we will continue to update you with photos, videos, or just writeups with what is taking place on the golf course.