Week of February 14th

What a crazy week of weather.  60's last Saturday, snow and ice Sunday and Monday, then back to 60's for the last part of the week.  I feel that is how the weather is this time of year in Maryland.  We hope everyone enjoyed the warmer weather but I'm sure winter will return soon.  

The crew started the week off inside finishing our last woodworking project for the year.  These crosses and post will be out on the course to help with foot traffic control on walkup areas around the greens.  When you are walking from your cart to the green please walk around the the crosses and post not over them.  

We removed the old fence on hole 10 in preparation of a new landscape bed.  This area will look similar to the new landscape bed at the 1st tee and tie in with all the new landscape around the parking lot.  

On Wednesday Matt and I attended the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Education Seminar at Turf Valley to continue furthering our education and recertifying our pesticide and fertilizer license.  It was a great event with speakers talking about new fungicides, fall army worms, annual bluegrass weevils, new varieties of grass, naturalized areas, and improving team work at our facility.  

Also this week the crew went around and lowered stumps from this winters tree program to get ready for our tree company to grind the stumps.  We still have lots going on around the course and many winter projects to finish.  With flip-flopping weather conditions we now have to balance out prepping the course for play on warmer days and finishing off the winter work list when we can.  

Thanks for reading.