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Golf Course Update


The course was hit with just over 7 inches of rain. We had sustained gusts of over 55mph. All the bunkers had "washouts". Fairways 1,6,7,10, 5 & 18 were basically flooded in sections. As you can see in this picture, sections of the fairways actually "bubbled" up from all the water. (CLICK on the picture) We had to cut them open with a knive and squeeze the water out! Tree damage was not too bad. Most of the damaged is located along the 5 fence line. We have a tree company coming out this week to clean those spots. The Greenkeepers concentrated on leaf and branch cleanup yesterday. We were still able to mow greens but nothing else. We plan to mow greens, most of the fairways and rough today. We will also start raking and shoveling sand back in place in the bunkers. It will probably take us most of the week to get the bunkers back in shape. . Our task was made more difficult by the loss of power but I am glad to report the Grounds Maintenance Facility and irrigation system just got power back a few hours ago. We will be allowing carts with some restrictions today. 

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With the help of architects Brian and Blake, we are now seeing what the new bunkers look like. This one is on 10 green right side. They will not have the fescue "eyebrow" we have had in the past. For more updates, please follow me @BrendanJByrne01 on Twitter.