Agronomy Department and Course Weekly Update

January 16, 2014

 2014 picked up where 2013 left off… WET!! Last year the golf course received 69 inches of rain, the average for our area is 52. The course has already had 2.5 inches of rain since the January 1^st. According to Channel 2 Weather Team, this upcoming weekend (Jan 18^th and 19^th) will be the first weekend since November without any rain. I don’t like to complain about rain but it sure would be nice to catch a dry stretch for a few weeks.

The maintenance staff will be pulling covers on Wednesday afternoon, off Thursday morning, on Friday afternoon and off on Saturday morning. So far, it has bee an wild winter with the MiniVerde greens. After the cold snap last week, I put a few plugs underneath a heat lamp in our shop window. We are already seeing new growth, which is a great thing! We still have a lot of cold weather to endure but so far so good.

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See y’all on the course,