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Ipswich Country Club GCM


Weeks of Feb 5th and 12th: Cleanup begins
As of the early morning hours of Tuesday the 13th Ipswich was forecasted to receive 4-8 inches of snow. Just the day before forecasts...
Michael Curtin
Feb 16, 2024


Week Of Jan. 22 + 29 - Road Trip
Most of the week of the 22nd was focused on the tree work on 1 which went extremely well. While that was occurring the agronomy team was...
Matthew Behl
Feb 2, 2024


Tree Work Right of 1
After seeing the course on Sunday morning and the amount of frost that had set up in the ground, I decided to give Mayer Tree Service a...
Matthew Behl
Jan 26, 2024


Weeks of Jan. 8th and 15th
For those of you that are away enjoying warmer climates, we have been in a weather roller coaster at Ipswich. On Jan. 7th we received...
matthewbehl
Jan 19, 2024


Weeks of Dec. 25th and Jan. 1
Happy 2024! The Ipswich Agronomy team has had a busy start to the year as we continue to cleanup debris and fallen trees from the...
Michael Curtin
Jan 5, 2024


Off Season Update: Weeks of Dec. 11th and 18th
Happy holidays! We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and like us are looking forward to the new year. As a reminder we have...
Michael Curtin
Dec 22, 2023


Week of Dec. 4th
In last week's blog we mentioned that we would be going biweekly in the blog, but decided to update as the agronomy team has had a busy...
Matthew Behl
Dec 8, 2023


Week of November 27th: Frosty Mornings
Lengthy frost delays were a normal occurrence during this final week of November. Today is the first day in over a week that the course...
Michael Curtin
Dec 2, 2023


Week of Nov. 20th - Winter Applications Continue
Much of this week was spent making winter applications to the golf course when weather conditions were favorable. Agronomy teams focus...
Matthew Behl
Nov 25, 2023


Week of Nov. 13th: Irrigation Blowout
This week the agronomy team was focused on some very important end of year tasks. The irrigation system was blown out on Tuesday and...
Michael Curtin
Nov 17, 2023


Week of Nov. 6th
Much of this week was spent on focusing on fall cleanup, irrigation system maintenance, and fairway drainage maintenance as we continue...
Matthew Behl
Nov 12, 2023


Week of October 30th: A Frosty Week
This week presented a number of obstacles for the Agronomy team here at Ipswich. We started the week with over an inch of rain which...
Michael Curtin
Nov 3, 2023


Week of October 23rd: Round One
The first week of leaf cleanup has been completed here at the ICC. Of course it was essentially raining leaves this unusually warm...
Michael Curtin
Oct 27, 2023


Week of October 16th: Start of Fall Cleanup
There has been a few beautiful sunrises over the course the last week as shown above. The focus of the agronomy team this week was on...
Michael Curtin
Oct 20, 2023


Week of October 9th: Fall Begins
Leaf season is starting here at the ICC and with it comes some familiar headaches for the agronomy team. All four of our turbine leaf...
Michael Curtin
Oct 16, 2023


Week of October 2nd
This week the Ipswich agronomy team has been working on finishing a number of small projects around the course. The last bit of the area...
Michael Curtin
Oct 9, 2023


Week of September 25th
Aeration Update: Tee aeration was completed om Monday. In conjunction with tee aeration we aerated the range tee targets as well. The...
Matthew Behl
Oct 1, 2023


Week of September 18th
Tee aeration is just about complete and is scheduled to be completed on Monday, September 25th. Once tee aeration is complete we will be...
Matthew Behl
Sep 24, 2023


September 17 - Debris
We were very fortunate to have Hurricane Lee move to the east and not provide Ipswich any real tree damage or heavy rain. As you play and...
Matthew Behl
Sep 17, 2023


Week of September 11th
The first half of September has featured very high fungal disease pressure. In fact, it is the highest I have seen on turfgrass in my 24...
matthewbehl
Sep 15, 2023
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