January proved to be a month with less than average rainfall. We were able to get out and mow the golf course much more than normal for this time of the year. Our average for January is around 5.50 inches. As of today, January 31, we are right around 3.75 inches for the month. We had a total of 14 days with recordable rain.
January was a busy month for the crew as we took on a couple of projects around the golf course. First, as you will see by the slides below, we are in the final stages of finishing the drainage on #5 fairway. This area will get some new sod over the ditch lines and will steadily continue to dry out as the drains start to take off excess water.
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| #5 Fairway |
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| #5 Fairway looking back toward tee |
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| #5 Fairway |
As many of you know, especially our lady members, the number one ladies tee is a very small and unimpressive first tee. In an effort to correct this, the crew extended the tee to the right and back just a little bit. It is now a much bigger and a more impressive first tee for our lady members and guests. It will remain closed until we can get some new growth established as temperatures warm up this spring.
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| #1 Ladies tee |
Another project has been some additions to our irrigation system in the rough on hole #13. We are extending some sprinkler heads into some rough areas that tend to dry up in the summer and cause balls to bounce pretty hard toward the out of bounds area. This improvement will help to maintain some needed turf in these areas with the hopes of keeping balls from bouncing hard to the left and potentially out of bounds. It also will help this area aesthetically during our summer months.
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| #13 Rough irrigation |
In addition to these projects our landscape crew has been busy sprucing up some planter beds around the golf course.
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| #4 Cart staging area |
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| #7 Tee |
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Let's cross our fingers and hope we have a dry February and spring will be here before we know it.
