The cold weather has made it's return! The past week has been nothing short of frigid! The ground that was wet and soft just ten days ago is now frozen rock solid. We still have patches of ice and snow in some areas. The crew spent their time finishing trimming trees along 5 fence line, behind 5 green and around the surrounds of 3 green. We will move indoors to clean, service and prepare the turf equipment for the upcoming season until the rain/snow passes. Next week we are starting to trench in some new irrigation throughout the course in perennially dry areas. I will be updating our progress next week.
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.