Briana Grinstead should be on spring break right now. Instead, she’s preparing to open the family golf course this Monday.

“I thought I was gong to get spring break this year … No, I guess I’m not,” Grinstead said, whose family owns Meadow Greens Golf Course in Austin. “I can’t remember the first time I was working over spring break.”

That doesn’t mean she’s upset, however.

“We are excited, and hopefully we can get people out going golfing early this year and get a lot of golf in over the summer,” she said.

Grinstead remembers last year when the course opened much later — sometime in April, which was the same for most local courses. Though some snow still sits on the ground, conditions are dry enough for Meadow Greens to allow carts on Monday, Grinstead said.

The Oaks in Hayfield also is scheduled to open sometime this week, and The Austin Country Club may open soon, as well. Mike Hasley, head golf pro at the Austin Country Club, said that course will not be open this week, as the amount of tree coverage hasn’t allowed the ground to thaw. Still, Hasley suspects the course will open within weeks, but it all depends on the course conditions.

Mike Olson of River Oaks said the course will most likely open up sooner than its May 5 start last year, but it’s too early to say when that will happen.

“We’ll be cleaning grounds up this week and then we’ll play it by ear,” said he said.

Employees at Cedar River Country Club in Adams were not immediately available to comment on course conditions or opening dates.