Llanerch Golf Course and External Activities

I feel like I keep blogging about the same subject: rain. As we tried to aerify greens yesterday, the rain kept making the task more difficult. We did get all the greens aerified but did not get sand topdress down on five of the greens. The wet turf makes putting the sand down to fill the aerification holes almost impossible. Our level of success in filling the holes determines how fast they will heal (ie: the more the hole is filled to the surface, the faster they disappear). We will spend the entire day trying every technique possible to fill the holes. We also have the forecast threat of flooding rains coming tomorrow also prompting us to finish today. Updates will follow.    

It has finally stopped raining (I hope). The course is starting to drain out. The main issue continues to be the bubbling of areas in the fairways. This picture shows what happens when we poke a hole in the bubbles. The water just spouts right out. In some locations, these spouts have been running for close to two days! The wettest spots are the bottom of  9 rough and 1, 18, 10 and 6 fairways. We just finished fixing all sand in the bunkers. The course is open for walkers but carts continue to be ruled out. We appreciate your patience as we continue to get the course back together and try to get the carts out and about. 

Since the last Golf Course Update, we have received 7.5 more inches of rain! 2.5 inches came last night and it is still raining! The course was so wet yesterday that we had to close it even to walking. It is safe to say that we will not have carts today at the least. As for the golf course, we are seeing the growth of black algae on some areas where the water is either puddling and/or flowing across on fairways and greens. This algae can damage and/or kill turf. We are going to do what ever we can to reduce the areas of damage. Lets just hope for the return of some sunny skies.