Wild Horse opened on March 9- a beautiful day to get back out on the course. Since then the weather has been the usual March up and down but we know to expect that from Nebraska springs.
The spring maintenance schedule is very similar to year's past. Irrigation charge-up and audit will keep us busy the next week as we will inspect each and every head and valve on the course to make sure they are working properly. If not, we make needed repairs and identify needed adjustments to arc rotation, spacing, etc. to tackle later in the year. Also we note yardage markers that are absent. We had been lax in doing this in the past couple years because we figured most everyone used rangefinders for yardage. We have learned that there are still many people (like myself) that rely on sprinkler yardages so last year we made an emphasis on updating those and will continue to look for missing yardages during this spring's irrigation audit.
Aerification then will begin in earnest in April. As we have mentioned before April is the prep month where many of our agronomic practices are done to set up the course to perform later in the year. Below is the aerification schedule for this spring:
April 2-13 Fairways-we will do one or two holes per day weather permitting.
April 16-17 Greens surrounds-back nine one day front the next
April 30-May 1--Greens-3/8" solid tine so no cores pulled and relatively small holes
May 2- Topdressing greens to fill up aeration holes.
Depending on weather, we expect greens to be nearly fully healed by May 12 and back to "normal" by May 19.
May 7- Tees
We appreciate your patience during these processes and try to work quickly to get out of your way and get the course back to normal.
Still pretty brown out there right now but we can see some green shoots starting to come on in the past couple days-won't be long now.
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