When it is too wet to mow fairways, one of our favorite pastimes is finding and fixing old drain lines.  There are very few in the fairways ...

The week of July 4th, 2012, is not one we are going to forget any time soon.  It started with 1.5 inches of rain and a violent wind storm o...

Many area courses are restricting cart traffic during extreme heat.  A few photos from this morning show why.  On days of extreme heat, gra...

Reposted from April 2010: Since we have a frost delay today, I thought I would post some information on frost and frost delays.  No one...

For the last few days, a low pressure system has been swirling over Chicagoland.  At Sugar Creek, we have had around 3 inches of rain in...

One of the interesting parts of working in the golf world is dealing with weather.  It is important to understand weather variations over ti...

While looking over recent pictures, I noticed that we golf course superintendents tend to take a lot of pictures of problem areas or project...

In March, the maintenance crew added a new drain under the cart path on #1 to prevent flooding and ice related problems along the path.  Alm...

Spring is coming slowly but surely!  We have had a cooler March than last year, but April is here.  In 2010, we had some unusually warm days...

Did it snow?  No.  Just frost. With the start of the 2011 season comes the usual early season frost delays.  While I know many golfers a...

Over the winter, I had the opportunity to gather and analyze some climate data from the past decade.  One chart in particular I thought inte...

Since the snow has mostly melted, we have been assessing the health of our turf coming out of winter.  Last year, I wrote about the factors ...

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The past few weeks have been ideal for completing many of our planned renovations and improvements.  Rainfall and temperatures have been mod...

As everyone in the Chicagoland area knows, we've had a lot of rain recently.  According to our rain gauge readings, we've had somewh...

In general, golf course superintendents don't like to see white, cottony stuff in the morning.  It usually indicates some sort of fungal...

The ground is drying out fast after the flood last weekend.  We were lucky the water went down fairly quickly.  The maintenance crew has now...