Surface and soil temperatures control our course preparations every day. For the turf to be ready for traffic we need it to be actively growing and this will not happen until we get a consistent 9-10 degrees in the soil. Even with the nice days we have not been getting much growth yet. Sunny days help and of course warm sunny days are best. The cold overnights and frosty mornings set us back temperature wise, hopefully with this nice week we can make some headway. When the turf isn't actively growing it will not recover from minimal traffic and concentrated traffic in specific areas may really set things back. 

Soil Temperature after a cool night (2.1 degrees)

We will continue to monitor the temperatures and hopefully we can get growth to the point of needing to cut some grass this week. When we are cutting grass we know things are walking up and will be ready for play soon after.