We have experienced a nice meltdown over the past two days. I have been able to see quite a bit of turf and I'm pleased with what I have seen thus far.
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| #8 green almost completely melted |
Over the last two days we've focused on removing excess water that remained on the surface of the greens. We pumped off water on several greens to mitigate any potential freeze damage that could occur from tonight's frigid temperatures.
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| pumping water off of #10 green |
The soil still remains frozen. I tried to stick a probe into several greens and could only penetrate an inch into the soil.
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| probe on #1 green |
I have mentioned on several occasions how bentgrass is a much more superior turfgrass than Poa annua. On the edge of #9 fairway today, I found a perfect example of this. In 2013, we replaced an area of the fairway that had been damaged by a cart. The edge of this fairway is predominately Poa but the replacement sod was a strip of bentgrass. Notice how the bentgrass is much more cold hardy than the discolored Poa.
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| #9 fairway edge |
I know warm weather will be here soon enough. Today's temperature only reached 36°. We hit a high temperature of 86° on this day in 2012. I know I'm ready for some warm weather.
