Shifting Gears

The grounds team has shifted gears now that the golf course and club grounds have been put to bed for the winter months. We have spent the last two weeks hanging all the Christmas decorations throughout the club, outside lights, steam cleaning all golf course equipment, final leaf cleanup, cleaned/painted tee markers, winterized club boats, reel mower cleaning/disassembly and even plowed snow in the parking lots 5 times now. The winter maintience season is off to a very productive start and the grounds team is excited for the golfing season ahead.

Tee Marker Cleaning

Tee Marker Painting

Parts Lists Created & Winter Maintenance Planned

Fairway Mower Cutting Unit Disassembly For Service & Sharpening

Steam Cleaning Equipment

Painting Driving Range Signs

Ice Rink Construction

Plow Truck Ready For Action

Inventory On Irrigation Tool Boxes

Fairway Cutting Units

Painting X-county Ski Trail Signs

Fairways Get a Haircut

Today we mowed the fairways for the first time of the season and they look terrific! The fairways are in wonderful condition this spring and its nice to see they made it through the extremely harsh winter in top notch form. The weather this past week has been absolutely beautiful, allowing us to knock out a bunch of work and get the course pepped for spring golf. 

Today we also made our first foliar spray application to the greens and approaches. This spray application will provide the pants a bit of food to encourage spring green up, along with fungicide protection against a Pink Snow Mold infection with the cooler/wet conditions forecasted for next week. 

First Greens Mowing

Today we mowed the greens for the first time of the 2014 season and cut fresh cups for the second time. This past weekend we had our first golfers of the season; it was nice to see several members out enjoying the sunshine and warmer temperatures finally. 

We are very pleased with the health of the greens at this point and it's nice to see them all standing at attention. This closeup picture above shows the tight, healthy, prostrate growth of the turfgrass plants, with a light layer of topdressing sand still visible on the surface. 

It's refreshing to get back out on the course and cut some grass after a long winter of record snowfall and persistent extreme temperatures. Spring has finally sprung at the club!