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 get back into the remaining bunkers.

The Sabot team continues to clean up from the first episode of snow and ice as well as continue with some winter tree work in select areas.

The upper lake is almost totally frozen over now! This makes it easy to keep the geese off our side of the property.

Our new John Deere branded Yamaha carts have mostly arrived on a new lease exchange. We have a few old electric Yamahas left that are waiting to be swapped out with new counterparts this spring but the new gas units are here. Our old carts lasted their 5 years and were more than ready to be swapped out. These carts accumulate over 30,000 miles in 5 years which for a golf cart is some serious mileage. The budget hurdles have been tough as these new 5 year leases come to term. The payment for this new fleet, for the exact same carts, went up by a staggering 70%! Getting our team around efficiently is paramount so we always appreciated the memberships support of our equipment needs!