Preparations Are Under Way
It is March 14th and the turf care department at Priddis Greens Golf & Country Club is well under way preparing the golf course for 2011 season.
This is the first post to our new blog. We plan on experimenting on what and when we will post to this site over the upcoming year. We hope that this becomes a successful tool in communicating with several different groups; the members, the staff, and the turf care industry. James, Chris and I will all be contributing to this site. In addition we plan on utilizing the social media site, Twitter, for daily updates on frost, course conditions, and tidbits of information throughout the day.
Unfortunately the 2 feet of snow that blankets the golf course has limited us in what we can do. As of the end of the day on Monday we have snow-blowed 4 greens. All 4 of the greens that we have removed snow on, are heavily shaded greens. We chose these 4 greens due to the fact that there was little chance of them melting naturally over the next couple weeks.
At this point we are limited to snow removal on the golf course but that doesn't mean we aren't going full throttle off the course in our preparations for what we are hoping is going to be our best season ever! We are planning projects, buying materials, and of course confirming staff. At this point, it looks like we may have our highest staff return rate in the history of the turf care department.
Over the next couple weeks, you can look forward to many more updates on when we hope to open and how the course has wintered. Please email us with feedback, comments, and suggestions for future blog posts.
Chad Armitage
Sr Assistant Superintendent
This is the first post to our new blog. We plan on experimenting on what and when we will post to this site over the upcoming year. We hope that this becomes a successful tool in communicating with several different groups; the members, the staff, and the turf care industry. James, Chris and I will all be contributing to this site. In addition we plan on utilizing the social media site, Twitter, for daily updates on frost, course conditions, and tidbits of information throughout the day.
Unfortunately the 2 feet of snow that blankets the golf course has limited us in what we can do. As of the end of the day on Monday we have snow-blowed 4 greens. All 4 of the greens that we have removed snow on, are heavily shaded greens. We chose these 4 greens due to the fact that there was little chance of them melting naturally over the next couple weeks.
At this point we are limited to snow removal on the golf course but that doesn't mean we aren't going full throttle off the course in our preparations for what we are hoping is going to be our best season ever! We are planning projects, buying materials, and of course confirming staff. At this point, it looks like we may have our highest staff return rate in the history of the turf care department.
Over the next couple weeks, you can look forward to many more updates on when we hope to open and how the course has wintered. Please email us with feedback, comments, and suggestions for future blog posts.
Chad Armitage
Sr Assistant Superintendent
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