Season is ramping up.....

We are finally into June and normally I would be saying something like.."stay patient, the warm weather will come and things will really start to grow."  This year, however, we have had one of the better stretches of weather we've seen in many years.  Memorial weekend was fantastic with plentiful sunshine and temps in the 70's, the last several have been cool and rainy/snowy.  The weather has definitely helped with the recovery of rough areas and the few greens that had a little ice damage.  Green #5 still continues to grow after seeding, verticutting and sanding pretty consistently over the last several weeks.  The only downside to #5's recovery is that we are seeing consistently busy conditions and with that comes foot traffic and more activity on the green, which will slow recovery somewhat.  That being said we are on our way and will continue to give that green some extra attention.  The course is playing really well right now and I couldn't be more pleased for the first week of June.  Starting today as well we will update this blog in the mornings by6:30 AM if there is frost delay.  If there is nothing on the blog we'll be good to go at our normal start time which is 7:30 right now.

Those of you that live around the course, an update on the water/river situation.  The last several weeks has been a real struggle managing the flows in our ditches around the course.  We had several days last week that the river was flowing at historic rates.  That being said this last weekend the river shifted pretty significantly, flooded the bike path east of the highway and caused our intake to get cut off from the flow.  We spent significant time and money creating a new diversion to re-establish flow from the river.  There is still a lot of snow to melt, however I think we have passed the big push that comes with the early warm up.  Hopefully we will see a nice even run off from here on out? 

On a wildlife note, we had antelope on the golf course yesterday.  I have to say in the 8 or so years I've been here this is first for me on the golf course.  I have seen them in the area, but further north and east in the park sage flats.  A nice addition to our wildlife inventory.

Antelope on #10 green