Ipswich Country Club GCM

The warm days we experienced on March 9th to11th were a welcome change of pace. It has been a long time since we have had temperatures in the upper 60's at Ipswich. With the warm temperatures and some overnight rain/fog we melted a good deal of our snow pack. We still have a long way to go before we are snow and ice free at Ipswich. We do have a warm rain predicted for Monday, but after that it appears to be a long stretch of highs in the upper 30's to low 40's. A gallery of

Another snow event Not much can be said about February other then it was a very cold and snowy month. On average, I would say we have 38 inches of snow cover on the golf course with much higher amounts in drifts. The last storm that started early on Monday, February 23 could have been worse as far as snow amounts and wind. This storm combined with snow on Friday, Feb. 20 and Feb. 21 added an additional 16 inches to the golf course. This additional snow pretty much ended any c

Winter Wonderland December and the first three weeks of January featured a lot of temperature fluctuations. These temperature fluctuations combined with snow and rain led to two periods of ice cover on greens. The ice that formed at the very end of December was the worst ice cover I have experienced since my time at Ipswich and probably the worst I have seen in my entire career. All greens had a very thick and dense ice layer as well as tees and fairways. Luckily, we had a br

Overlooking the 9th Green Winter here at the ICC has been very cold with frequent small snowfalls. While the snow amounts have been overall low they have forced the agronomy team off the course more than we would like in the early stages of winter. Thankfully, we have been able to perform work to some areas more easily accessible to us even with snow and ice over significant portions of the golf course. On the days spent inside the winter crew has been busy working through eq