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This picture was taken about a week after the greens started growing in the spring. There was a heavy layer of ice on the greens about a month earlier, so as it warmed up we sent the guys out to cut channels in the ice with flat shovels to speed up the melting process. What we did not ask them to do was to “take a little off the top.” Several greens showed these brown swaths where the top of the plants had been shaved off with the shovels.
We are thinking about sending them to barber school. |
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Unfortunately, mudslide is not referring to an alcoholic drink. We recently removed two sand bunkers to the left of 18 tee and converted them in to modified grass bunkers. However, before we could get the sod down, Mother Nature dumped about 2 inches of rain on us in less than an hour. The result was 10 inches of mud on the back half of this tee.
It was a mud mask for the tee, but believe me it did nothing for the pores. |
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The instructions were to weed whack around the trees. The result was a giant brown ring around this tree. Apparently, his technique was to start away from the trunk and work his way in. Can you imagine what it would have looked liked if the lightening detection siren did not go off to stop him?
The next time he went out to weed whack around trees we took out the string. |
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This picture was taken while clearing the ice and snow off the greens this past spring. Earlier in the winter we had high winds with bitter cold temperatures blow across the golf course. This green sits in an unprotected area and took a beating by the wind as seen by the brown turf. The only thing protecting the grass was the pin that was blown over onto the green.
This year I am using bigger flags. |
