This week Bill and Lidia, also a new staff member this season, have began work in the pumphouse where they are stripping all the old paint off the piping and pumps and will then be repainting it all. They should be able to complete that all this week. Things will look great in there once this is completed.
I picked up our new flagsticks and cups for this season from one of our suppliers today. These new flagsticks should be able to handle our wind and stay in the cup in these strong winds as well. We will be receiving our new flags in the next couple weeks also.
The new flagsticks and cups
I took another tour of the course today to see how things are looking. We are slowly getting there. It has been impressive how much snow has actually melted lately considering we have not really had much for temperatures above freezing.
#11 fairway melting nicely
I was finally able to pull a bit of a tarp up to take a look under and see how the greens have done this winter. Judging from the back portion of #18 green, I was happy with what I had seen. Things appeared to be greening up nicely and looked healthy. I didn't see any disease and there were no unpleasant odours that would indicate suffocation/anoxia. But I never had found much for ice anywhere previously so I expected that suffocation should not be much of an issue for us.
A look under the tarp
We are hoping for a decent weekend this upcoming weekend. If that is the case we should lose enough snow to allow us to travel around the course better. So I am hoping to be able to get out on the course and remove the snow fence that was put up around the greens and across the tee boxes to hold snow. This should help accelerate melting. So we are not at the point of saying we will be opening on a certain date, but things are looking up and we are getting much closer to the golf season!
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