"
Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Oscar Wilde
If you haven't been to my place of work, you have no idea how appropriate the previous quote is in several different ways.
Although I've been back out to work for the last few weeks getting things ready, today is the first day I'll be back with the course open for play. The weather has put us behind about two weeks, which is ok except the state switching the high school sports seasons around has left us with an 80 man golf invitational this coming Friday. The grass hasn't even begun to move yet. But we'll take it. It's mula.
The course came out pretty well as far as disease is concerned. I'd like to get a hold of the people who decided to use every fairway as a snowmobile drag strip and the greens as their 'turn-arounds'. Every year it's the same deal - just varying degrees of damage. You can only call the cops so many times after spring arrives when there's no way to track the vandals back to their well disguised rat-holes. As my late, former boss used to say, "It's grass. It'll grow back."
And then there's this classic, "Just do it. I don't pay you to think..."
I have 100% of my crew last year coming back with about 98% of their same availability - which is uncommon. I usually have to replace 2-3 spots with newbies, but not this year. Less training, but more reminders of bad habits...
I've actually had a ton of people looking to trade work for memberships. Times are tough, especially with most of our customers being hard working, blue collar trades people. In Livingston county we're in auto worker and house-building country.
Gonna be a rough year I think.
