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Ground is saturated, more snow on the way

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  Our less than ideal winter weather continues although this is really how winter used to be. Cold, wet and gross up here is why golf in Florida and California was invented! The guys have made the most of a few sunny and thawed out days this week and crushed the irrigation wire plowing on #1. The tees on #2 are also complete and the whole left side of 2 is close to being finished as well. The digging and back filling is tough but the light at the end of the tunnel is around the corner up at 4 green. With the bunkers thawed out we were finally able to get a decent rake on them this week. And with the greens fully thawed they were rolled and sprayed with some fertilizer to perk them back up from last months nasty temperatures.  Our Thorguard horn got smashed by a pine branch in the ice and snow a few weeks ago. Sloan got the parts in and replaced the broken horn housing. Scobar, our stump contractor was out on Monday to finish grinding some stumps, mainly on the Manakin. Most of...