Certainly a chill in the air this week with some very cold mornings and cold breezes throughout the day.  Despite that the tees and fairways are still putting on a little growth which as I said last week is excellent for this time of year.  We are drying out in areas and the water table is dropping as well which most certainly hasn't happened to this extent over the past three years.  The dams on 5, 7 and 8W are always a good indicator for where the water table is sitting and the pond on the corner of 5W hasn't been this dry for a long time.

Virtually dropping by the day.

Had a fellow Superintendent play the West course last Saturday and I wasn't aware he was playing and received a nice compliment for the crew from him - Good morning Peter, Just thought I'd let you know compliments to you and your staff.  I played the west course on Saturday morning, my first game there since you re-surfaced the greens and they were magnificent, held the ball and putted true and fast.  The whole course was in amazing condition so congratulations.

His comment about the greens holding well brings me to another topic as we are getting a lot of un-repaired pitch marks on both courses but more noticeably on the West greens.  Most un-repaired pitch marks on Couchgrass greens will get scalped by the mowers next time they are mown which injures the plant and opens up the scalped area to disease.  Please make an effort to look for and repair your pitchmark.  

3 untouched pitch marks @ 9W green.

And certainly not caused by a pitchmark and you would like to think not by a player but by a vandal last week end on 13R green.  The actual hole cup was still in the ground.

13R cup is there somewhere.