The miserable winter of 24/25 continues

 

The courses were actually drying out nicely on Monday and Tuesday. It is always great to see prior drainage work sucking down water in the winter months. As we cycle through these wet and drier times, it only makes sense to keep carts on the path in a conservative manner. This also includes remote control carts. We will have the golf shop differentiate between walking manual push carts and remote control carts on some days. These days are where it is still soaked and the remote carts can damage turf in wet swales. In general, people pushing manual carts will avoid these wet areas so we are happy to allow them out.

With an absolute mess of snow and rain was in the forecast, so we hustled the entire crew back out to #2 Manakin and kept on plowing wire in on Monday.

Every remaining head on 2 was dug up except for around the green. The guys even picked off a few on 3 tee and got them back filled (over 50 heads total) before the snow started to fall on Tuesday. There are less than 90 heads left to wire up on 2 green, 3 and 4!

We even snuck in a quick greens topdressing in front of the snow and rain. This is the longest stretch in 6 years that we have gone without needing to mow greens.

The blast of snow and ice came as forecasted and has once again thinned the evergreens out. This has certainly been a tough year for perennials and pine trees. The amount of snow and ice that accumulates on some of these pine trees is incredible. Branches started dropping Tuesday night into Wednesday morning and knocked out power to the club right as we were trying to open Wednesday. The neighborhood remains without power around the club. Cold temps return tonight and we will start freezing and thawing once again. Then more (!) snow may be on the way late next week along with colder temperatures. March looks better but right now, this stinks!