Well, to everyone's surprise (including me), the course is open for play today. After some early afternoon rains yesterday, it became very windy. The wind continued through the night and helped dry the ground out. We still have some snow patches and tree debris on the course. The Greens Staff will work diligently to clean up as soon as possible. Because the ground has not totally dried out, we will refrain from carts today. Hopefully this is the start of warmer and dryer weather!
Starting yesterday, the construction crew began sodding the 18th green complex. They have installed bentgrass for the fairway extensions, low cut bluegrass for the intermediate cut and turf type tall fescue for the rough. They also installed some fine fescue on the bunker edges. We plan to finish sodding by tonight but might need to purchase a small quantity more next week to fix some construction wounds.