There is finally relief ahead for many of us this weekend after what has been a very long winter, and a non existent spring, culminating with last weekend's terrible ice storm with the accompanying high winds, the worst prolonged spring storm I can remember.
The mess it left in the GTA coupled with the contracts for seasonal city workers expiring just before the storm hit, will take until the weekend to clear up. While major highways and roads were salted, side streets and sidewalks haven't been touched, especially bad where there is no sidewalk residential responsibility.
However all this changes for the good come Friday with sunshine and temperatures finally reaching seasonal norms by Monday at 13*c and climbing.
So there will be an explosion of growth, water tables are very high, lawns, weeds, privet hedges, trees, perennials, will all start to grow all at once. With it you can expect a bit of a bug fest, with all the midges and mosquitoes hatching in the warmth, and revelling in all the standing water and soaking wet grass.
This is not new for our golf course superintendents, the well organized will have kept seasonal staff who began their contracts at the end of March, busy in preparation. Most high end courses don't open until May, they'll be a couple of weeks late, while the early birds who count on a few thousand April dollars have been shut out this year, and are praying for a good dry summer to play catch up.
Meanwhile the pro season marches on oblivious to our plight, with the LPGA at the inaugural Hugel- ITBC LA Open in Los Angeles where Brooke Henderson, Alena Sharp, Maude Aimee LeBlanc and Anne Catherine Tanguay will play.
The PGA Tour is in San Antonio for the Valero Texas Open where we will cover Nick Taylor, Ben Silverman, Corey Connors, David Hearn and Mac Hughes who all, with the exception of Silverman who was off, missed the cut at the RBC Heritage.
There are no Canadians at the very popular Champions Tour stop, Bass Pro Shops Legends of Gold at Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri.
Finally the Web.com is back in action at the North Mississippi Classic where we will find Albin Choi,Stuart MacDonald, Roger Sloan, Adam Svensson, Ryan Yip and Seann Harlington
So I'm off to clear a few of my clients driveways and catchment drain covers now that the rain has stopped...and am happy to report this is for the last time this year !!
Bryan Angus
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