Winter has arrived!

Well for those of you who have not ventured outside in the past two days, Winter is Here! We started off Sunday with a low temperature of 26.8 degrees for our first frost delay of the season. That has been follow with some wet weather that rolled in Sunday Night and still continues to give us a scattered shower or two. No snow as of yet, but and I am sure when the clouds clear out that we will see some snow dusting the tops of the hills surrounding our valley.
So far our rain total is 1.3" A nice slow and steady rain that lasted over 10 hours. Combine this slow and steady rain with a golf course that was fairly dry, and most of the water soaked in versus running off.
Showers are forecasted through Wednesday and then I would expect a fairly slow drying out due to cold temperatures. If I had to put money down I would guess that we might have to stay on the cart paths till Saturday.
With this first major cold spell of the winter season we will lose some of the lush green color that we have been experiencing for the past month. We will be make foliar fertilizer applications to fairways and tees to help offset this lose of color.