I'm Feeling Old Man Winter!

What a bizzarre weather trend we've just experienced.  Warm temps, heavy rain, thunder, lightning, and tornados just north of us.  All this taking place on November 22, very uncommon.  Yesterday we reached 65 degrees and now it is 28, how does it manage to drop 37 degrees in such a short time?  Anyway, we did receive some much needed rain, things were very dry.  In fact we've been dry since right after labor day, very minimal amounts of natural rain fall which again is very uncommon for our area during this time of year.  All in all we received .60" of rain throughout yesterday morning and last night.  The day did clear up though to allow us to tackle some tasks.  We began our dormant fertilizer applications in the rough as well as the approaches.  Leaf cleanup and mulching still continues and will continue like I said till the snow blankets the ground.  Today, when the ground thaw's out which may be awhile we'll try and spray approaches if it isn't too windy as well as tackle some fairways.  Fairways are the last areas we need to spray for our winter protection, then it is a matter of topdressing and applying the covers to the greens.  Heat us up sun so we can get out on the course!

The End of Another Week

Heavy, heavy frost again this morning.  Once again we're delayed to get out onto the golf course so we are continuing to clean up the buckthorn at the club house as well as cleaning up some course accessories we've brought in.  Today will be a short day as the club remembers Chef Paul whom passed away last Saturday.  RIP Chef!

Up and at 'em!

Today was a day of no frost, enabling us to get outside right away.  Thankfully too as today is only an 8 hour work day.  Monday's and Tuesday's we've been working till 5pm since the course is closed for play and that enables us to get a lot accomplished and if frost in the morning still a good work day.  Anyway, greens deep tining finished up yesterday and the crew did a tremendous job.  Today we work towards getting things closer to being put to bed but also a few more cultural tasks.  Deep tining is taking place today on all the "old" tee boxes, solid tines are being used to minimize labor needed for the task.  We continue to montior the weather so we can time our winter fungicide applications.  Once the applications are made on the greens they will be closed for the season.  Looking at the extended forcast Sunday and Monday are still to be moderate so as of now we are gonna hold off till Monday to spray, but if something changes with that forcast tomorrow spraying could be done here on Thursday or Friday weather permitting.  This is such an important spray application as if we don't get it down before the snow we will be out there shoveling things off to spray.