Get worse, January!
You can pretty much just write off January as far as golf goes. Not until we click over to February will we see temperatures come back up to normal or above normal. We have a few greens that are less than 50% covered in snow but the majority remain pretty well buried. We will surely get some melt tomorrow but it is doubtful any turf will be ready to play on. Oh yeah go ahead and throw in an earthquake along with the cold weather. We are not sure if this was really because of tectonic plates or if it was just Joe dropping over-grown pine trees at Dominion Club. Oh well, our projects only really get slowed up by rain. Grant has his team staying warm by digging up more irrigation heads this week. The snow has burned off 16 tee and most of 15 which is right where we needed to be. The plow actually works a little better with the top inch of turf frozen. Finishing off 16 and getting most of 15 done this week keeps us on a schedule to finish our last 9 holes by mid-March and then ...