Tropical Storm Debby paid us a visit this week. Thankfully we didn't sustain too much wind damage, but we did end up with 12 inches of rain over a 4-day period. Despite this enormous amount of rain, the golf courses held up beautifully. The holes that have been grassed had some expected flooding around basins and some minor washouts around some bunker edges, but all in all the course handled the rain great. The minor flooding we did have receded quickly and we were able to get back on the course to conduct debris cleanup by Friday. We plan to mow out the course over the weekend and fertilize the course on Monday to help the soil recover from the flushing rain we had.
Palmetto 7, our last hole to grass did sustain some erosion of some soil, but its work the TDI team should quickly be able to repair and get back ready for grass. The unfortunate issue will be the lost growing time on this hole from not being able to complete the sod work and prep the fairway for sprigs. We will loose 2 weeks of growing time, as we anticipate planting to now occur on August 20. Let's hope we have a warm September. We will sprig this fairway heavier than the others have been to encourage a faster grow in. We will also treat this hole with additional fertility and topdressing to push the grass as much as we can.
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| Tree damage on Palmetto 4 |
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| Flooding on Palmetto 5 |
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| Flooding on Palmetto 4 |
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| dumping water through weir gate on palmetto 8 |
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| Greens handled rain beautifully |
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| water draining through new basin |
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| Washouts on Palmetto 7 fairway |
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| minor bunker edge washouts |
