Course Update for the Remainder of March

Golf Course Update for the Remainder of March
Now that we are half way through May (I mean March, feels like May), here are our objectives on the golf course.
-We are only at about 1/3 of our staff right now and I plan on keeping it that way until we reach April, which is our new fiscal year.
-We are about 2 weeks ahead of normal required sprays and our greens have never been opened this early as long as anyone can remember. 
-Roots are starting to grow and grass is just starting to perk up, but real growth will not occur for another few weeks.  You will notice areas that were sodded within the last 2 years with tall fescue or kentucky bluegrass are still dormant and will green up later than our poa, bent, rye roughs.
-Our main concentration now is get finished with aerification, tree cleanups, seed and sod stumps and prepare the turf for the coming season.  Detail finish work such as stick cleanups, seeding rough areas, mulching beds etc will not take place until April when we are at full staff.
-Greens were mowed yesterday for the first time, mainly to pick up sand, but as mentioned earlier they are not really growing and mowing will occur probably 2 times per week.  Tees and fairways were also mowed once and we will mow them as needed.
-Bunkers will get machine raked 1-2 times per week, but we do have rakes out and please rake the bunkers when you play out of them so we can use our labor for other things during the week. Also, I cannot emphasize enough that in the new bunkers on #10, please do not walk up the greenside faces when entering and exiting the bunker, this will not only displace the sand, but could damage the liner and the new bunker edges, which have not stabilized yet.  We have created easy access points on every new bunker.
-Being it is so dry, we have allowed carts out early and I encourage everyone to stay on the fairways as much as possible.  I do not want to concentrate carts this early in the season in our roughs as I really am trying to get our roughs to improve this year.
-All colored tee markers will be put out on April 2nd and in the meantime we have a single set of white tee markers out.  If you normally play from the white markers, please play from where the markers are set on a daily basis.  If you like to play the blue tees, you can play from anywhere on the blue tees and the same with the red and green.  During the season our white tees get the most play and we are trying to avoid using the noraml white tee marker locations so they are in good condition when the official season arrives.
-My main goal with the new practice green and 11th green is to have them open in mid to late April.  They are progressing as expected and we do not want to open them too early and suffer any setbacks.
-Finally, we do still have firewood left behind the 17th green and if you would like to take some please feel free.  We are going to move the remaining wood in the next few weeks and put it away until next fall so now is the time.  The cool weather is not over yet.