Llanerch Golf Course and External Activities

We have decided to open 9 green today! I hope to see you out there playing it soon! Thanks for your patience!

Yesterday, we spent the day solid tining fairways. The aerification will help the fairways drain faster, improve rooting and reduce thatch build up. We completed almost all course yesterday and will begin tees and approaches today and tomorrow.

We aerified 9 green today. It will also get topdressed and rolled. It is getting very close to greens height. I feel it needs a few more weeks to mature. I can't see it being closed any later than the end of April. Thanks for your patience!

With the warm weather, we aerified greens. They are very small holes but will improve the health of the soil profile. We rolled them smooth right afterwards and added some sand. We are mowing them this morning. They are very wet from last night's rain but should be playable later today.

Yesterday and today represent more "first" mows on the golf course. We have mowed all the approaches and fairways yesterday. Today, we are mowing all the greens and starting the rough. With a forecast of heavy rain coming tomorrow, we are racing against the clock to get the course as "mowed out" as possible!

Just as we started to mow fairways for the first time of the season, here comes thunderstorms?!?!? It is highly unusual to have thunderstorms in March. We just received 0.3 of an inch of rain in 20 minutes. We have no other choice but to restrict carts today and only hope for better weather tomorrow. The one good attribute about today is that we are still in a "drought" watch in the Philadelphia area. So, we do need as much rain as possible.....just more in the evening and not during the day! 

On March 1st it was 72 degrees and we were mowing the 9th green. Today, its 19 degrees in the morning with  3 inches of snow with a coating of ice. The forecast really only seems to warm up after Sunday. I am hoping that most of the snow is gone by late next week. We will keep you and the Golf Shop updated.