14 inches of snow!!! Wow!!! The course is completely cover in snow drifts and ice. We are concentrating on plowing snow drifts and salting the remaining ice in the parking lots.. When I was driving to the course this morning, it was 0 degrees! It is very difficult, even with salt, to get the ice to break up and melt when it is this cold. Any time we do not spend outside, we are working on our yearly winter maintenance of turf equipment. Lets hope for warmer weather soon!!
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.