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| 1 Tee, April 2nd |
As usual, I suspect we will start with some version of a "9 hole" layout and open other holes as they are ready. Right now the good news is we have very limited damage and all but one green (#14) are completely free of snow and some are even greening up.
Truthfully, number 2 green is a bit funky and my initial guess is its health relates more to how it entered the winter. I became concerned last year with the unusual amount of growth (as measured by collecting clippings) experienced on all the greens last season. My fear was the energy being directed to all the vertical growth (especially in the fall) was been fueled at the expense of CHO storage. Compounded by the fact that #2 green (in the fall) becomes mostly shaded starting at noon I was concerned about the development of winter hardiness for this green. I have it tarped and did some tree pruning (more will occur later in the season, I promise) to give it a bit of help. As it stands now, if the green doesn't improve it will be a temporary until soil temperatures are adequate and we see some good growth. It's not real bad but it's got a long season ahead of it so I may baby it for April.
Another developing tradition is the Member Spring Clean. An e-mail will be sent out letting everyone know when to come and volunteer. It really does help with preparing the course for opening and limiting early season expenses. This year there is a few extra branches down due to all the snow so I am hopeful for a big turn out.
Back in December last year (go HERE) I decided to try and see how Twitter could work for me, you, and KGC. What did I discover? If you're not disciplined, it is a huge time waster! However, I have found it useful in certain aspects so I've decided to try and emulate what other golf course geeks are doing. The hardest thing is wading through all the posts. Truthfully, that's only a problem if you decide to create or already have a Twitter account. If you choose to just follow my feed with your cell phone via text message you will only receive "tweets" from me and no other persons feed. How do you use your cell phone to follow my feed? Assuming you text, all you need to do is type the number 21212 in the "To:" window and type "follow KGCtweets" in the message body of the text and then press "Send" and you're good. When I send a tweet that relates to the club I will preface any message with #KGC. Any time you receive a tweet from me that doesn't start with #KGC you can pretty much ignore it since the lack of the hash tag and the KGC mean I am posting on matters that don't specifically relate to the course. Like I said before, I plan to use Twitter to inform in "real-time" the happenings at KGC such as when we will definitely open, frost delays, or days when we aren't allowing carts, or stuff like that.....I think. I promise not post my opinion on topics outside of KGC, no pictures of empty beer bottles, and no photos of other local superintendents in compromising positions.....well I am not so sure about that last one, some of those guys need to be knock of their perch! Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
