Here are the highlights from January through May: For those of you who were not here to enjoy it, it was a real Montana winter. Plenty of cold, plenty of snow cover, and very few freeze/thaw cycles. All positives for [...]

Looking out on all of that snow it would be fairly easy to think that our golf course may be under considerable pressure right now. However, our turfgrass is very much in its happy place. We received snow cover before [...]

Here are the highlights from September to date: Due to an extremely wet and cool October, we were unable to aerify our greens directly after course closure. We will evaluate their health as they emerge in Spring and make a [...]

September 2016 This Fall brings more chemical control of poa annua throughout the golf course. I'm sure many have noticed some of the little white patches of turf throughout the shortgrass on the golf course: this is the result of [...]

May 2016 Early snow melt and plenty of nice weather have combined to make this a very successful Spring for Golf Course Maintenance. The turf wintered very well and is already in excellent health. Vole damage was virtually nonexistent, there was [...]

December 2015 Warm and dry weather stayed with us long enough this Fall to accomplish at least the beginnings of many items on our list. We stripped and leveled two more tees at the practice facility and rebuilt the stairs [...]

September 2015 Clean, crisp air. Leaves beginning to change. Fresh rainfall. It has been a beautiful Spring and Summer, but for the sake of our golf course, we are glad that Fall has arrived. We really took a beating this [...]

June 2015 It has been a beautiful spring and the golf course is in generally good condition. The rain total from June 2nd and 3rd was almost 2 inches. This will really help fill in some of the thinness in [...]

April 2015 Two consecutive abnormal winters, maybe this will be the new normal... The highlight of this winter was the snowstorm in mid-January that left behind 30 inches of snow in three days, with a total snow cover approaching 4 [...]

November 2014 After a beautiful September and October, we were finally frozen solid in the second week of November, bringing a halt to our project work until spring. We made a lot of progress and have many projects underway, so [...]