Back at the beginning of May, I wrote about the appearance that we had turned a corner in the weather department. Obviously, at the time, I couldn't have been more wrong. May ended up being the 3rd wettest May in Chicago history, and going out with a bang delivering over four inches of rain in five days here at the course. Although it could have been worse - there are areas in the western suburbs that received over seven inches in that same time period - it was bad enough to keep us from allowing carts on the golf course on Memorial Day. Maybe this time we have actually turned the corner into a pattern of good weather.
Today we are having probably the nicest day of 2011. There are just a few wispy clouds in the sky, the humidity is low, and there is a light 78 degree breeze. Between yesterday and today, I couldn't ask for better weather to dry the course out. Nearly all of the standing water is gone, and the only areas that remain wet are mostly out of play areas. The greens, tees, and fairways have also really gotten green over the past few warm days. The fairways are especially noticeable. Even though, it has been almost a month since they were fertilized, they never really greened up very much. The fertilizer that we use on the fairways has a very temperature dependent nutrient release, and with the cold weather we have had it just hasn't released. Now it is kicking in and the fairways are really looking good.
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