Cold morning!

The air temperature this morning got down to a chilly 20 degrees! Temps that low can sometimes be dangerous to our greens. However, most of our surface area is still covered in snow and ice and the small areas that were exposed have plenty of soil moisture to prevent the soil temperatures from dropping very quickly.
This morning at 8:00 am the soil temperature of the exposed greens was 31.5 to 32 degrees.

Winter storm 2012

The storm dumped 9 to 10 inches of SNOW on the course! And it was beautiful! However, we do have some tree damage. Most of the damage is minor and mostly out of play, but there is a lot of it.
Once the course has melted and dried some I will be asking for some help in cleaning up. BUT it will be about a week (or more) before the course can handle equipment or cart traffic. Once it is dry enough that we do not track/trench the course I will call for volunteers. Thank you and I hope everyone has a great holiday.
Here are a few pictures of how pretty the course is!

Snow/ice

The storm that is currently moving though is not a real threat to the uncovered greens. In fact a cover of snow or ice will be as good protection from the cold as our covers. If we do not have a blanket of frozen precipitation we will likely cover Wednesday.

Watching the weater!

The current forecast for Wednesday night has me preparing to cover the greens Wednesday. Although, mother nature might take care of that for us on Tuesday night! A cover of snow or ice on the greens will just as good as our covers! I hope everyone has a great Christmas!

Almost winter

A couple of shots after Mowing the fairways. We will not mow again until at least Feb. and then only if we need to clean then up.

Some tree work

We are working on hanging and broken limbs today.

BALL MARKS!

Please make sure to repair your ball marks and maybe one or two more each time you play golf.  Thank you! During this time of year it is even more importantto repair these! Thanks again.

Cart Path Only

Just a reminder that we have gone to Cart Path Only.  This will remain in effect until Spring. 

Painting the Greens Today

We stated this morning and hope to finish by Thursday afternoon. If we need to though we will finish up Friday morning.

Looking good so far.

 Clint painting #1 this morning.

Painting the Greens

I had planned on painting the greens today and tomorrow; however, with the dampness today and the good chance of rain tonight and tomorrow I have pushed it back until Wednesday and Thursday (and Friday if needed.) While painting we will have to close two holes at a time, the green we are painting and the green the previous green. This will give the paint enough dry time so it will not leave foot prints.
I apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

We paint the greens for a couple reasons, first and foremost, it looks great! Our paint job really has a natural look that gives the golfer a brilliant target to shoot at from the fairway.
Secondly, the dark color helps attract sunlight and in turn helps to warm the surface and the soil.