winter?

Usually by Thanksgiving we have gotten enough weather in either snow or rain form to shut the course down for the winter. But this year the nice weather just keeps coming and unfortunatly your grass really needs some rain.

Today I am out handwatering the new sod and starting a few greens. Each green gets about 500 gallons of water or more and that should give us another two to three week window to wait for either rain or snow. Tank watering is a painfully slow way to water.

Irrigation blowout.............

Next week Monday we will be starting the annual irrigation blowout. The process takes about 3.5 days.

This week we mowed all the short grass one last time and then pulled all the reels off of the traction units. So I dont plan to mow anymore this season. The bathrooms should be winterized and shut down for the season by the weekend. Most of the rakes, t-signs, tee markers, ballwashers, etc. have been brought indoors too.

Following blowout we still need to make our snowmold application and topdress the greens. We also will be working on the leaf harvest, but that has been a waiting game as the trees are not dropping leaves real fast yet.