Our North Shore location has been pounded this winter by heavy snow storms. Last weekend I was on the South Shore and golf was being played, some courses even had their greens open, but here, we are not even close. Our shaded areas, such as # 1 and # 13, are still 100% snow covered. South facing slopes are free of snow. Hopefully, the temperatures will stay over freezing this week and we can get some serious melting underway.
Here are a few photos from Last Month.....
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| Plowing....again, and again. |
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| 14 fairway |
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| 12, always a nice view, even when white |
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| 12 green to tee |
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| Ugh...not again. |
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| looking across 5 fwy from maintenance area |
The Canadian geese, who annually use Fresh Pond as their winter palace, have ravaged all exposed turf areas. As their food supply was close to nil due to snowcover, once any grass became exposed they literally ate it to the ground. We spent many hours chasing thousands, no joke - thousands, of geese off the property only to return in the morning and see them right back at it. Unfortunately, the end process of their ingesting our turf leads to a heck of a mess. Truthfully, every square foot of turf without snow on it is covered with goose droppings. This mess can not be cleaned
up until it dries and with all the melting that is coming - that may be a while.
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Grass goes in.......and well, you know the rest.
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| #7 fairway on Saturday March 8th |
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| #7 fairway again - this taken on March 10th. Significant meltdown. |
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| lots of tree damage from the heavy weight of the snow. |
Our winter work, done with minimal staff - ranged from repairing our maintenance building where we were able, to overhauling all of our old equipment and grinding (sharpening) many, many reels and bedknives
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We Are VERY Ready to get back at it on the course......hope to see you all soon!
