The golf course sustained 4.75 inches of rain over 48 hours! The winds
knocked a great deal of the leaves out of the trees. Oh, it also knocked
down a few trees, too! We have roughly 10 trees down through out the
property. Some are along fence lines on Steel Road, Edmounds Avenue and
Township Line. Others around tees and greens. Some parts of the black
and cyclone fences will need to be replaced. None of the greens, tees or
fairways were damaged. The construction on #9 green held up great. We
are planning to have our arborist out starting on Monday. We have to
wait that long for the course to be dry enough to accommodate the tree
trucks. The course will be open for play after 12 noon tomorrow. The
carts will only go out if the course continues to dry out over night. I
will be adding another update tomorrow. Sorry for the delay. We lost
power at the Grounds Maintenance Facility (not restored) and back at my
house (just restored). Most importantly, I hope everyone and their families made safe out of the hurricane.
Starting yesterday, the construction crew began sodding the 18th green complex. They have installed bentgrass for the fairway extensions, low cut bluegrass for the intermediate cut and turf type tall fescue for the rough. They also installed some fine fescue on the bunker edges. We plan to finish sodding by tonight but might need to purchase a small quantity more next week to fix some construction wounds.