Course Update...such as it is

This will be brief. Snow is melting but we are still dealing with 20 inches on shady spots and 16 inches in the sunny areas. Temperatures have been nice but not as nice as the seasonal norms of plus 10. At the present snow level, removal would be arduous and could create large, dense snow banks that would be slow to melt. The usual reason we remove snow is to address suspected problems such as ice, disease, or tarp removal. We've dug down and haven't seen any obvious ice in the usual low areas or disease (to be far disease doesn't really show up until after snow melt).

18 Green Surface

The color is far from mid-season but based on the growth of the plugs we've pulled from the greens this year it seems to be temporary as seen from this pictures of a plug from 1 green.

Plug from #1 Green
March 4th

Plug from #1 Green
March 18th

The snow is also limiting our mobility as exemplified by the following:

However, with the right vehicle we can get around:

The vehicle on the left of the picture is obviously lighter and has high floatation tires that allow us to drive on top of the snow if there is a dense, crusty layer. The picture I'm not showing is the one where I also got the "high flotation" vehicle stuck 100 yards down 4th fairway and had to dig a road to it with the bobcat to pull it out. What I am I trying to say? Patience.