Despite the heavy snowfall and a long winter, the golf course is coming along nicely. We were pinched for time before opening with all of the sod work, but as that heals, improvement is noticeable each day. It’s a relentless [...]

With about seven weeks until opening day, we have our most impressive snow pack in the brief history of Iron Horse Golf Club. Most areas on the golf course still have two to three feet of snow. The upcoming Spring [...]

December 2017 Moving the greens aerification dates forward by two weeks was successful as we accomplished a thorough deep tining on all of the bentgrass. The weather also allowed us to aerify most of the fairways; we will finish the [...]

Late Summer Update 9/5/2017 Greens:  Despite missing aerification due to weather last year, Greens came through summer very well and are in excellent health. Because we missed our last aerification, it is crucial that we do not miss this Fall; [...]

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 [...]