The guys are out blowing greens and mowing. The golf course will take some time to clean up after the wind yesterday. Leaves and pine needle are a plenty! Thanks for your patience with the frost delay! Why is it important?
Basically, when there is frost the water in the cells of a blade of grass freeze. The grass in this state becomes very fragile and brittle. If you walk on grass that is in this state the blades of grass will break off and die. So if golfers get on a golf course that has frost and they damage the grass, by the afternoon you will see black footprints wherever this has happened. Tough to putt on a green that has dead foot prints all over it! So keeping golfers off the golf course when frost does appear is a very necessary prevention exercise to protect all the golf courses we enjoy playing.
Another challenge we face trees losing their leaves. We all love the look of trees after they bloom and enjoy their shade. Everyday, we to try to either mulch the fallen leaves or blow them off the fairways but it is pretty well impossible to clear them completely and keep them off all day. Wind and leaves falling naturally will simply erase whatever work was done to get rid of them. Consider invoking the so called “Leaf Rule” in your foursome. What this means is that if one in your group hits a ball amongst leaves in a fairway and you can’t find it, even though everyone agrees it is in the fairway or rough, simply drop another ball in the general area and proceed without penalty. Not exactly what the rule book says but I’m pretty sure that book was not written to account for what happens in the fall in our part of the country, on a golf course with so many deciduous trees in play.
