Divot Damage and Healing

 

This is the 11th tee.  Between the markers are the divots from 1 day of golf over Thanksgiving weekend.  If you look behind the tee markers, those are divots from other days during November that have been filled with seed and soil.  These areas on the tees will not be fully healed until May, but unfortunately golf will ramp up again in April, so it will be some aggressive growing of grass come spring to get the tee to look good for the 2023 season.  

It was ultimately decided to put out mats on par 3s and short par 4s this winter to help our tees get a break and be in good shape come next spring.  Once the mats arrive we will put them out and it will be mandatory to play from them until April 2023.  We will slowly install mats each year throughout the course based on the amount of traffic we receive during the winter months.  Fortunately for the grass, it has been a cold November and play is definitely down or our tees would be really beat up.