Spring weather

With the improving weather we have been able to get the spring clean up moving along, cleaning up sticks, blowing leaves and preparing the flower beds for the season. Today we mowed greens and started cleaning out and raking bunkers; just doing these two things makes the course look much better right away. The fairways are slowly starting to lose their winter brown color, and the more sunshine they get the more they will green up. However, despite all this nice weather the course is still very wet, so if you are out and about on the course, please keep your carts on the paths.

Also, we roped off the new sod at the chipping greens and ask that you stay off of it until it has healed in a bit better and we have taken the ropes down. We fertilized it yesterday and rolled it today, so it's looking very good but it still needs time before it is ready to be played off of. 

Finally, I was out and about last weekend and saw something that would never happen at Barrington. Two geese decided to nest right in front of a store, and it seems it was a good spot, because the store owners put cones up to protect the nest. I wish our geese would nest in such obvious spots, it'd make it all the easier to control their population level.