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There’s a lot of time that goes in before golfers tee off towards a pristinely cut fairway or putt on a smooth green in Summit County — much of the seaon’s prep work is done in the fall and early spring.
From aerating the course to keeping an eye on the course’s sensitive greens and keeping up with cutting the course during a rainy spring season, the Keystone Resort golf operations team works around the clock to provide 36 picturesque holes across its Keystone Ranch and Keystone River golf courses.
While many may believe that the prep work that needs to be completed ahead of a new golf season occurs in early spring and late winter, for Keystone and many golf courses located in mountain communities, a lot of the work actually takes place in the fall.
Both the Keystone Ranch and River courses close out the golf season in the fall by spending numerous hours preparing the course for the long Summit County winters, according to Keystone Resort golf director Phil Tobias. Those preparations ultimately pay dividends once the golf operations team can see the grass again in the early parts of spring.
“Some of the things that we do in the fall to get ready for winter is that we aerify our fairways and our greens, we spray snow mold preventative, we verticut our fairways,” Tobias said
