Oneida Golf & Country Club – Green Bay, Wisconsin
Two Decades Green.
For twenty winters, the greens at Oneida Golf & Country Club have gone to sleep under cover and woken up ready. It wasn’t always that way. Now seventy-five years old and built on the club’s original design, they sit in heavy shade and drain poorly — and for years a Green Bay winter meant ice, winterkill, and a spring recovery that could drag deep into the season.
Then, in 2005, Director of Agronomy Mark Storby made a decision he has never second-guessed. This Oneida Field Report follows what changed: the system he built around GreenJacket’s impermeable covers, the winter discipline that keeps them working, and the result he has watched repeat every spring for two decades. There is a moment at uncovering that still surprises him — and a one-line verdict on covering his greens that leaves no room for doubt.
For any superintendent weighing how to carry their own greens through a hard winter, Oneida’s twenty-year record earns the read.
The full Visual Field Report is available below.
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