What a turf cover can do in the spring.

With the last of the winter's snow fall behind us we can now concentrate on trying to grow grass. This is a picture of the 9th tee that has had a turf cover on it for about a week. The cover usually will do two things, prevent wind desiccation and increase the temperature under the cover. This would all depend on sunshine amount, air temperature and wind speed. We have measured the increased in the past of 8 degrees warmer than the air temperature outside the cover.
The reason we place a cover on this tee is to try to hasten the divot repair from last years play. Hole #9 is a short par 3 which players usual take a couple divot's on their practice swings and not so much on their actual swing. Multiply those divot's by the number of golfing rounds we get and.............you get the picture!
This cover will be on and off the tee for a good part of April based on the weather and golf schedule.