Ozaukee Country Club – Mequon, Wisconsin
At Ozaukee Country Club in Mequon, Wisconsin — a course whose large, undulating greens have been making news since Langford & Moreau laid them out in 1922 — winter is less a single event than a slow test. Desiccation, freeze-thaw cycling, and a spring that arrives late all work against the surfaces members expect to be ready early.
For more than a decade, superintendent Brett Hosler, CGCS, has answered that test the same way: GreenJacket clear permeable covers on his greens and tees, installed and pulled on windows he chooses rather than guesses. The Ozaukee Country Club Field Report looks at what that decade of discipline actually produces — and why Brett is refreshingly candid about both the payoff and the craft it takes to earn it.
What comes off the covers each spring is a surface that leads the golf course into the season — greener, denser, and better-rooted than the turf around it. How Ozaukee gets there, in Brett’s own words and in the photographs, is worth seeing for yourself.
The full Visual Field Report is available below.
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