Following a frosty opening day on Saturday with morning temperatures at 33 degrees its looks like spring has arrived with temperatures predicted in the upper 70's for the next 5 days. Now that the soil temperatures will consistently be over 55 degrees the turf will really start to grow and we will be in full maintenance mode. I get asked many times what types of turf we have on the greens and the answer is annual bluegrass (Poa) and bentgrass. Due to last weekends frost the bentgrass has a purple color so take notice this weekend especially on greens 2,3,6, and 9 and you will see the difference very clearly between Poa and bentgrass. The bentgrass will quickly green up with these warmer temperatures.
After waiting over three weeks for our bunker sand to be delivered we were able to add sand to certain bunkers this week that were low. These bunkers will be a little softer until the sand settles. The rough sod around greens 3,6, and 8 has all rooted. We mowed these areas and have removed the ropes. The fairway sod work on the 5th hole needs another week before we can remove the ropes. The areas in the fairways that were aerifed and seeded will be germinating now that we are irrigating and the temperatures have warmed.
I hope you can enjoy the weekend on the course and hope to see you out there.
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