Warm winter weather keeping NJ golf courses open

Jan 8 2012 in News by thestarter

Mild winter temperatures prove helpful to N.J. golf courses still struggling from wet summer | NJ.com: …

the warm weather couldn’t have come at a more opportune time as many public courses that usually sleep through January under a blanket of snow are still open. That’s a blessing after having struggled through a wet and wild 2010. From early spring floods, to Irene’s late-summer landfall, to the freak October snowstorm, golf courses lost prime playing time throughout the year…

Climate figures confirm that last year was indeed the worst — at least since Walter Hagen swung a club. The state broke a record for precipitation, said state climatologist David Robinson.