Everyday I'm Shufflin', Shufflin'....

First of all I'll keep with tradition and post the 2016 April 1st-ish photo:

 

April 2, 2016

Go to HERE and HERE for pictures from other years for comparison.  Looks like I missed last year but I'm pretty sure we're ahead by a minimum of 2 weeks. I've mowed and fertilized front 9 green two times already; for March, that's a first.

As mentioned in previous post we had disease on some of the greens again.  You can go to HERE to see a post from last year that provides an explanation of the disease.  As usual I'm looking at the reason but I'm still trying to look for a trend.

The great weather has sped the recovery and combined with tarps the soil temperatures are in the +12 range (at about 2 inches) which has resulted in this:

Looks Good From Afar....

Greens that I haven't covered are off color but are still growing, albeit slowly:

No Fake Green Colour Here!

Again, the nice weather is great for the turf but will screw up my wage budget as I'm having bring in staff 10 to 14 days sooner than I planned.  Hopefully, that can be offset with more play/revenue?

With just myself and Neil L. at work, the past month has been busy with pulling tarps, moving tarps, and re-tarping. Each day I'm here I try to do 50 plugs on the greens to repair the winter damage.  As long as I don't stop for a smoke and a pancake that only takes me about an hour.  The rest of the day seem to be spent messing with tarps (I keep mentioning tarps because they really are that time consuming!) or dealing with the random issues that pop up such as knitting together the driving range net, tree removal, or what have you.  Maybe the next post I'll try and get down and dirty with what happened this winter.