Moving right along...and the greens are open for play!!!!!

Milroy is cruising right along with the mainline installation.  We are 75% complete on the mainline.  The weather is looking pretty wet over the next week, so we may stop running mainline and start pulling the lateral lines and setting sprinkler heads.  During periods of wet weather, there is far less disruption and mud from running laterals as opposed to the mainline.  Most laterals are "plowed" underground with minimal surface disruption.

We've also installed 3000 feet of drain lines over the past 2 weeks.  Most of #7 fairway, the really wet area between the #4 tee and start of the fairway, the swail in the #4 fairway, #5 fairway along the left, and the new nursery green we are building to the left of the ladies tee on #11.  We plan on putting in about 7000 more feet of drain lines over the next 6 weeks.  Other areas will be the beginning of #1 fairway, most of the #2 fairway, #18 fairway, #17 fairway, a few spots on #13 and 14 fairways, and parts of #11 around the green and as you walk from the tee to the green.  This is quite ambitious, but we think we'll have the time to get it done.

We are opening every green except the 10th green on Friday the 12th.  I feel the greens are definately in a good growing state right now.  We've had very good weather to go along with all of our cultural practices we performed.  Many greens still have thin areas, however they are no longer too weak to hold up to foot traffic.  We are back to mowing nearly every day, which tells us the plant is strong and healthy again.  We have seen daily improvement even with mower traffic on them, so I feel it's OK to open them.  We will not be using pin numbers until after we aerate in April.  I want the staff to be in full control of steering golfers away from the injured areas when setting the pins.  If we use numbers, then we will be handcuffed to areas we would not want the pin to be in. 

I want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding.  The 10th green was hit very hard and we have massive turf loss.  We will continue to promote as much Poa annua to return before we decide to overseed with a different variety of grass.