Turf Report

March Turf Report
Winter weather from late December through February had us concerned about winter injury to turfgrass. As a few die hard March golfers can attest, the golf course survived winter quite well and it should be in great shape for golf this spring. Greens are in excellent condition. Fairways and some rough areas have minor superficial snow mold damage that will grow out during later March and April.

Few New Englanders felt warm and fuzzy over our severe winter weather, but the heavy snow cover combined with extended cold temperatures helped turfgrass. The deep snow cover acted like a warm insulating blanket for turf, while the constant cold kept the snow from changing into damaging, turf killing ice. May all cold and snowy winters be just as nice as 2010-2011's!!

The golf course is somewhat messy with sticks and small branches scattered because of windy storms, but we are working to clean it. We lost a few trees and branches, and removed the dead pine on #2, and the large (and dead) maple on 18. If the golf course dries out quickly after this weekend's rains, I can forsee greens opening up somewhere between March 17th to March 24th with constant good weather. We will keep you posted.

Thanks for reading and we hope to see you soon!!