Temperature Update

For those of you keeping score. Sunday we hit a temp of 107 F, Yesterday and we hit 102. We are on a high level program of syringing greens in the afternoon to help cool the turf canopy. We also did go forward with raising the cutting height on the greens. For those of you technical people, we typically mow at .125" or 1/8 of an inch. Today we raised the cutting height to .140" or 9/64" of an inch. We continue to roll greens a couple times per week to help preserve green speed. Hopefully this heat wave will break soon. One of the few benefits to slower greens is greater number of pin placements. We can place cups in spots that would not be playable with quicker green speeds. Hopefully for the next few weeks you can enjoy a little variation in the course set-up.