Llanerch Golf Course and External Activities

I would like to introduce Llanerch's newest staff member Zeus. He is our geese chase dog. I will have more information about Zeus coming soon!!!

Yesterday, we received 1.5 inches of rain! The course weathered the storm very well! We had almost no washouts of sand in the bunkers! We had some standing water in a couple of fairways but drained enough to get carts out around 11:45am. The bigger surprise is just how cold it is outside. We were at 28 degrees this morning with a wind chill of 20 degrees! Looks like we will have some cold morning for the next few days. If you are planning to come out and play early, don't be surprised by a frost delay. Let's just keep our fingers crossed that we can say "goodbye" to frost and "hello" to a warm dry spring!

Today, we are preparing for heavy rains over the next 24-36 hours. We are racing to mow everything today in the case it is too wet tomorrow. We are also spreading sand on lower areas of the fairways to help them drain faster. The staff will be taking a blacktop tamping machine to some of the bunkers to pack the sand down. This can reduce the severity of the sand "washing out" from heavy rain.  

Finally! The sun has come out and it is starting to warm up! We are aerifying and topdressing greens and will reopen the course tomorrow. We are also cleaning out and raking all the bunkers, mowing fairways and tees. Yesterday we rolled and mowed greens. We are hoping to finish the last of the storm tree damage clean up by tomorrow. More updates to follow! 

This is a picture of the new patio off 18 green taken a hour ago! I am just speechless about this weather. I just went outside and measure 2.5 inches of snow! We will have to wait until the snow melts before we can continue cleaning up from all the other damage from the .......you guessed it...snow. The other picture is obviously a 4 leaf clover that will hopefully give us some good luck when it comes to getting some warm weather! Enjoy your St. Patrick's Day!                                                                               

Yes, you read that right. The Range is open today! We spent a few hours removing snow from around the ball containers and parking lot so we could open. The snow is melting throughout the course as we speak. The departing snow has revealed more clean up for us but we are just happy to see it go!

As of this Monday, large areas of snow melted but we still have large areas with snow on it. I am hoping that by later this week, the snow will all but be gone. We are still cutting up branches, chipping branches and raking up pine needles. We will continue with that type of work until the snow clears up. I will be posting more updates on the course all this week.