Wow, what a week it has been! The weather certainly HAS NOT cooperated and has forced us to alter our plans throughout the entire week. Today's forecast has us handling assignments on a minute-by-minute basis and I'm sure we'll be changing things up on the fly as the unpredictable weather torments us!
I am still pleased to report that we will be reopening on schedule, but won't know for sure until tomorrow morning if we will have any temporary greens in play. At this time, I suspect we will have a few on the back 9 as we wait for drier conditions to work the topdressing sand into the remaining open holes. Obviously we cannot expect ideal greens immediately following aeration, but we anticipate them healing rather quickly again with the smaller holes.
Assistant General Manager, Mike Hodge, and I made a friendly wager back in early January on a Red Wings/Canucks game that we attended. Many of you already know that I am a die-hard Detroit Red Wings fan so I picked the Wings to win and he obviously went with the inferior Canucks. Here was the wager: if the Canucks won, I would have to be Mike's personal assistant during Sponsored Men's Night in the Men's Lounge and if the Red Wings won, Mike would have to be my personal assistant during a morning of this spring's aeration week. Needless to say, the better team prevailed so being the good sport that Hodgey is, he reported to work for his aeration shift at 6am this morning - he's lucky it wasn't a 4am start! The wet weather has forced us to complete some non-aeration tasks first thing this morning, so here is a photo of him helping to edge bunkers - he sure looks different without his dress shirt and tie:
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| note the backwards rain pants |
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