Summer is almost here!

The drier than usual weather we have had in May and so far in June has provided us with some great conditions on the golf course.

Fairways are dry and we are getting some roll on our drives that we haven't seen since late last summer. We are in our summer mowing schedule (as long as it doesn't rain too much) and it consists of the following:

 Greens are mowed seven days per week, and the height of cut is  set at .100; Tees and Approaches are mowed Tuesday and Friday (once all of our summer crew is here we will mow them M, W, and F), height of cut set at .325; Fairways are mowed Monday thru Friday, height of cut set at .400; and rough is mowed everyday, height of cut is set at 2 inches. It takes two days to mow all the rough, so it gets cut twice per week. We roll the greens on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Holes are changed and bunkers raked everyday.

I took the photo below of #17 green at 6:36 am the other day. Look at all the sunlight on the green, last summer at this time it took until 10:00am to get that amount of light on the green. The tree removals we did earlier this spring will really pay off in better turf conditions in coming months.

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