It’s been a roller coaster of a winter season for local golf courses.
The rain-freezing rain-snow-freeze events have made it very difficult to do the necessary work to prepare the course for the upcoming season.
Golf course superintendent Paul MacCormack of Fox Meadow Golf Course in Stratford, P.E.I., said fluctuating temperatures and weather conditions this winter has a lot of the behind-the-scenes work necessary for the upcoming season challenging.
‘It’s always a challenge’
“Back in the day, you used to be able to depend on the fact that snow would come just before Christmas,” he explained.
“It would stay as snow until it melted in March, and that’s just not the case anymore. The fluctuations with temperature and weather patterns have been just so sporadic over the last few years.”
He said that’s changed, with unpredictable weather making his job harder.
“It’s always a challenge. It’s always something that we always have to be mindful of as the weather comes and goes and changes and it’s just another facet of the job now that we have to pay attention to,” he said.
“Before you could kind of go home and forget about it for a few months, but really now you have to be mindful of what’s going on under the snow.”
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