Covers off

The covers are coming off and the course is open! Come out and play !

We are watching weather for next week, looks like we might have to cover again!

Again

Due to the weather forecast we will becovering  the greens again this morning. Hopefully winter will make up its mind one way or the other soon. 64 degrees yesterday 34 today? 

Uncovering / recovering

We are planing on removing as many covers as possible this afternoon and removing the remainders as soon as they thaw again tomorrow. We will begin today as soon as the covers are ready, that depends on how fast the temp rises.

We will open tee times as soon as possible tomorrow. 

Looks like we will have to recover Monday. 

Covering today

Due to the front coming un this evening we will be covering this afternoon. Covering the greens takes us between 4 and 5 hours so we will begin at Noon today. Please plan in teeing off before 12:00. Thank you. 

An eye on the weather

As usual we are watching the forecasts for later this week. 

I make decisions on covering based on information gathered from The Weather Channel and The National Weather Service. As of now their forecasts are completly different! And the "tie breaker", the local guys, are also quite varied! So as of now we are watching! Possibly Wednesday afternoon, possibly Thursday morning, hopefully not at all. 

Uncovering

Looks like we will be uncovering the Greens Saturday morning. My crew and I will be here at 7:00 am, unless it is raining, to start drying and removing. Until we get started removing covers I cannot be sure when the course will be open. I hope by noon.

Uncovering plan?

Right now we are in a wait and see mode. With this weeks forecast I just do not know when we will be able to remove the covers. The covers need to be completly thawed and relatively dry before we are able to remove them. They are simply too heavy to move when very wet.  

This morning they were mostly dry but not completly thawed. The temperature has been above freezing now for about an hour so we may be able to start today, if it stops sleeting. As of now Saturday looks like a good guess. 

 

An adventurous evening and a Frigid morning.

Yesterday evening was quite exciting around here! We had a few covers try and blow off in the gusty wind. Thanks to the quick help of several members we were able to get them back into place before the temperatures got down to danger levels. I then irrigated those greens in order to wiegh the covers down with ice to prevent further problems. The greens that had issues were 15,4,and the   putting green. All should be fine! 

I want to thank everyone who helped!

Shane Mclary

Rex Cherry

Don Hudak

Chris Albright

Cary Maddok

Glenn and Peyton Smith!

A special thanks to Billy Wright and Bill Dennis!

Alao to any other i might have missed! THANK YOU!

Here is a picture of 4 at 5:00 just after it blew off!

Here is a picture of 4 this morning covered in ice. 

Everything looks good this morning!

This morning was/ is dangerously cold! 

So please be safe and smart out there!

Cold !

Cold this morning and more coming! 

With the forecast for the next several days we will be keeping the covers down until sometime mid to late next week. Although the forecast on Saturday may be decent golfing weather the Greens Committee and BOD Have agreed that attempting to uncover and then recover for a golfing window of one afternoon is not in the clubs best interest. I am sorry for the inconvenience.  

Covering

We will be covering the greens today. We will begin on number 1 at noon.