USGA Green Section Update

LINK :  Coping With A Slow Growing Spring

We are still playing catch up in many areas of the course.  The cool spring is over and warm, muggy weather is now the norm.  The practice tee took 3-4 weeks longer to come alive and greens are still behind schedule from aeration recovery.  Some rogue patches of bermuda did not survive the winter and some shady areas of zoysia may not return.  It's warm now, but a lot of grass is just now waking up after a prolonged stretch of cool weather in April.  We've been spared some of the rain our neighbors have seen, but we've had much more than we'd like.  Rainy days mean no sun and excessive rain means water logged soil with no oxygen.  Plants don't thrive under these conditions.  We'll get where we want to be eventually and I expect a great summer.  Hopefully it will get here soon.