Sunday

.15" of rain last night, golf carts are available. Please watch for and avoid low line and marked wet areas. Thank you.

Getting Ready for the Holiday

Spring has been very unforgiving. The constant rain has made maintenace difficult and pushed many "detailed tasks" to the bottom of the priority list. Your maintenace staff has done a fine job of rising to the occasion, working extra hours, so those little details are ready for this holiday weekend.

A major undertaking is the bunker mowing, all bunker faces have been mowed and edged.

All of the CDGA plates have been installed. We have put out brand-new putting green flags and flags sticks on the course.

We have continued to work diligently to restore smoothness and increased speed to the putting greens. Our greens are "activly growing" in order to heal through aerification. It will take another week or so, to see that growth level off. We appreciate your paitience.

Thursday

We received .88" of rain last night. Due to the course being so dry, and absorbing all that moisture, we will have golf carts today.

Yardage on the tees

This week staff has been diligently getting the new CDGA yardage plates installed. The yardage corasponds with the score card yardage. We plan to have them all installed for the holiday weekend.

Progress of greens

The aerification holes (from last week) are healing as planned, we plan to be fully healed next week. Thank you for your paitience.

Frost Delay

Currently have frost on the course, we will keep you updated as conditions improve.

Happy Monday

The course is finally drying out. Golf carts are available please watch for low line and staked areas.

All clear

Frost is clear, course is open for walking only.

Frost Delay

38 degrees this morning, we will have a frost delay.

More Rain

There was .75" of rain last night there will be no golf carts today. We are open, walking only.

The rain just won't quit.

Another .48" there will continue to be no carts today.

Wednesday 5-11-16

With an additional 1/2" of rain yesterday there will be no carts today.

Tuesday 5-10-16

.91" of rain last night, there will be no golf carts today.

Monday 5-9-16

The front 9 holes will be closed for greens aerification. We will keep you updated on our progress.

Aerification

Today begins a new era at Wilmette Golf Club as we aerify greens for the first time since 2012. After 2012 there was a three year hiatus due to the construction project.

The Greens at Wilmette are one of, and if not, our biggest asset. It is important that year after year we take the necesary procautions in preventative maintenance in order to protect this community's investment.

Although aerification may seem like the Superintendents revenge, it has many long term benefits that aid the growing environment of the grass.

Some of those benefits include, removing unwanted organic matter, alleviating compaction, and increasing air and water infiltration.

We are confident that although "punched" the greens will remain playable and with good warm weather they should be completly healed within two weeks. 

We appreciate your patients and look forward to seeing you on the course.

Welcome !

Welcome to the Wilmette Golf Club Grounds and Greens Blog. In an attempt to reach as many viewers as possible we have created this blog to update our patrons on current course conditions and on going maintenance projects. This blog is linked and connected to the clubs golf app, which can be downloaded for free via your cell phone providers application store.