As I'm sure you know, it's raining. Hard. In the last 48 hours we've had 1.6" of rain come down and it is lashing down as I write. The good news is that we have growth regulation on greens, tees, fairways and a lot of the rough and that, coupled with the cooler weather, means that the grass isn't growing too fast. So, when you do play it will be wet, but hopefully the grass won't be too shaggy. The bad news is that we have rain in the forecast through Saturday.
When it does finally quit raining, we will be in the bunkers adding sand to get them ready for the season. The hope was to have this done for men's opening day, however the weather didn't allow us to get it done this week. The sand that will be going in the bunkers is already here, awaiting transport from the employee lot into the bunkers on the course.
While we won't be needing irrigation for a while, today we got the system charged up and our acid injection and fertigation systems setup for the season. It may seem premature to do this, but this allows us to find any leaks that developed over the winter and fix them before we really do need the system in the summer. While we do our best blowing out the irrigation system in the fall, if there is any water left in the pipes it can freeze and cause breaks that are only found when the system is pressurized again in the spring. The last few years we've had minimal leaks in the spring, however we also haven't had winters as bad as this last one either.
We'll do our best in the next few days to get the course in great shape for opening day on Saturday. I hope everyone has fun this weekend and a great start to the 2014 season!
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