What the greens staff do in February

Nothing that shows. February is when the links is hollow-tined, top-dressed with its own sand, and left alone.

The temptation on any coastal course is to feed it. Fescue does not want feeding; it wants to be hungry, because a hungry sward is a fine one, and a fine sward is what gives you a ball sitting up on a firm lie in July. Every bag of nitrogen you put on in spring is a slower, softer, greener course in August, and a course that needs watering to survive the first dry fortnight.

So the answer to what the greens staff do in February is: as little as the weather allows, on purpose.