As stated on the last post, we finished off this week by taking advantage of the sunny days and tried to melt off some of the snow and ice from certain greens by spreading black sand. You've probably remember me harping on the importance of a quick melt when it comes to exposing greens in the spring. That is a fairly generalized statement that has a few caveats, none of which will be commented on this time out. For today I'll post pictures that show the progress of melt on 9 green over the past 30 or so hours.
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| 9 Green, March 8th at 10 a.m. |
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| 9 Green, March 8th at 4 p.m. |
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| 9 Green, March 9th at 4 p.m. |
Temperatures ranged from a high of +12 to a low of -6 overnight. The nice thing, even though there is still snow and ice, is there also a thin air layer separating the remaining snow and ice from the green surface. If the temperatures stay above freezing at night such as the forecast predicts, this entire surface will be open by the end of Saturday (March 10th).
