Heavy rain.

On Monday night there was a large storm that came through the area and dumped 2.1" on us, 1.7" of which came down in one hour. This left the course soaked, bunkers washed and some extra ponds in bunkers and spots where catch basins clogged. We spent the day yesterday pushing up the edges on bunkers to get them ready to be raked.  When it rains as hard as it did Monday night, the water that needs drained is vast and moving very quickly. It brings with it anything in its way and deposits it's passengers whenever the water slows down.What we will do today is to shovel out the silt that was dumped in the bunker bottoms. This process is very labor intensive, but it is also necessary because if we don't clean the silt out, the fine particles that make up silt will further contaminate the bunker sand and slow down how well they drain.

Below is a bunker on #7 full of water. You can see as the water recedes it leaves behind silt that it carried with it on it's way to the bunker.

Here is the bunker on #6. It doesn't have any water in it but it is full of silt. If this isn't removed, not only will the bunker sand be discolored, but water on it's way to the drainage below will be slowed down  and even stopped in some cases.

So, we will clean the silt out of the bad bunkers by hand.

We will have a lot of guys in bunkers today and maybe tomorrow, so please excuse us, what we are doing needs to be done. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Ian