Course Conditions

Golf Course Spring Therapy

Amos Stephens / Superintendent May 13 2026

Anybody talking about the weather?     We are.

We are doing the best we can with what Mother Nature handed us this spring.

We rolled the covers back out on the back 9 greens to address the Poa Annua loss. It was a tough call, do we leave them uncovered and recover slowly, or take our medicine now and speed up the process heading into summer? Ultimately, with the front 9 giving us regulation greens to play on, we decided to push hard on getting the back 9 back up to the standard we expect faster rather than later.

We seeded the back 9 greens Tuesday, and now we hope this sunshine sticks around and helps us along. Things are finally starting to green up. Slowly, but the color is changing. We mowed the front 9 greens today, but there’s still very little growth to speak of.

Consensus... It’s been a stubborn spring.

We continue to deal with deep frost in the ground... one of the worst years in recent memory for irrigation repairs. Some of these breaks are taking extra time simply because we have to wait for the ground to thaw enough to dig and properly repair them. We have water on most of the golf course now, but you’ll still see open holes in spots waiting to be completed.

That’s not neglect, it is by design and patience.

All those pesky stumps we have accumulated over the years from lost trees are finally being ground out and removed. We have been working diligently to tidy those areas up, and when conditions allow, we will be adding topsoil and finish the disappearance act properly.

You can also notice we have started tackling parking lot maintenance and filling cracks in the asphalt, something that hasn’t been done in the parking lot’s 42-year history. It takes time, especially since we have decided to take much of this work on ourselves, but progress is happening every day.

Investments are being made, and more are still to come.