Thursday, November 11, 2021

A Taste of Winter


We blow out the golf course irrigation system every year during the first week of November. We have had 70 degree weather and as low as 25 with a frost so hard the ground looked like this picture.

This year we showed up to work with a really fluffy and wet layer of snow. It melted by 11:00 but I caught this beautiful clubhouse sunrise picture. 

It takes four of us until around 4:00 to go through the system twice and it is ready for the winter. 

Turf Conditions Before and After the Big Melt and Before the Two Feet of Snow on the Way

Here are the pictures I took on Saturday, March 7, this is 2 green.  I was very worried about the potential of ice damage and crown hydratio...

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