Hermitage CC Golf Course Management

Talk about a role reversal this week! HCC received over 3” of rain this week from what felt like some sort of weird tropical system…in May. That 3” was actually more rain than we had received over the previous 3 ½ months combined! Desperately what we had been wishing for…just not seven days before Member-Guest. Good thing we got all of our plant protectants out on Tuesday on ...

Not the ideal forecast for most this holiday weekend, but for us grass growers, it looks pretty dreamy. Hopefully the next four days will bring some much-needed relief to what has been a historically dry spring.  Currently watching the radar!

 After weeks of watching rain chances disappear from the forecast, we finally got a little glimmer of hope this week with our spring weather woes. Monday the campus received right at 1" of slow, steady rainfall, followed by another 0.2" Wednesday and just a trace today. We’ll gladly take it. This rain was a much needed help for the operation, but we’re still sitting roug...

 As we move deeper into May, it continues to feel like spring is teasing us more than actually arriving. The unusually cool and dry conditions we’ve experienced this season have significantly slowed the green-up process of all our bermudagrass surfaces across both courses. While we remain optimistic every time rain appears in the forecast, Mother Nature has continued to ...