Greens and cold

The greens are a little furry today. You have to be careful this time of year with mowing and maintenance. The freeze / thaw process will make the greens real soft and the mowers can actually make the greens more bumpy. The thawing process results in a extremely soft top and a still frozen bottom layer.

We will try to get the greens mown tomorrow. Hopefully we won't have a long frost Saturday morning and we can get the greens cleaned up. Today we are waiting for the frost to lift so we can get out there and get them blown off. It's 26 degrees at 7am....it might be a while. The guys are helping with Christmas decorations today at the club until we can get on the greens.

It's always a fluid process in deciding weather to wait for maintenance tasks on the greens on a morning like this, or just go ahead and send the guys home and save on labor. A lot of times I'll look at the tee sheet and if it's fairly dead, I'll try to save on the labor (on weekends). If it looks like we can get some stuff done without waiting all day and we are going to have some play, we try to do everything we can.

Brent Graham, CGCS
Director of Golf Maintenance
Two Rivers Country Club
1950 Two Rivers Rd.
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Cell: 757-592-0840
Office: 757-258-4606
Bgraham@tworiversclub.com
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