Impressive rain.

On Tuesday we received over 4" of rain in an hour. It was an overwhelming amount of rain for the course to take in such a short period of time. The bunkers bore the brunt of the damage but there were some other spots where we had issues. However, I think the course handled the rain pretty well considering how much fell in such a short period of time. We are still dealing with some damage, but things will be buttoned up again soon and hopefully we don't see another rain like that, well, ever.

#15 Green side bunker.

#11 fairway. This was not sod. The force of the water just peeled everything back.

#7 bunker.

#2 fairway. There was so much water in the drain line that it pushed the sod up.

#1 green. This was about 2 hours after it quit raining. It drained down by the next day.

One of the biggest draw backs to all this rain is how it interrupts our mowing schedule. Today, we were able to mow all 18 fairways for the first time in 8 days, normally we mow every other day. The rough hasn't been mowed at all this week. It's just too wet. Thankfully the rough isn't growing very quickly so things aren't out of control and we will be able to catch up once we can send a few guys out. We also haven't been able to stay on our spraying schedule and, as a result have fallen a little behind on tees. In fact, we went out and hand sprayed the tees yesterday in order to stop some dollar spot that was starting to show up. It took quite a bit longer but if we waited for it to be dry enough to drive on them we would have been eaten up by disease.

If you were on the course today you may have noticed that grass really likes when the sun is shining. It seems like we haven't had two consecutive sunny days for a month and as a result the grass was off color and just didn't look right. Well, today it was glowing green and looking a lot healthier and the only thing that changed was the sun came out. Hopefully it stays out for a while.

Ian