It's been another week of wet weather, almost 2.7" since 6/13. That brings us to 5.48" so far in June, and nearly 14" since May 1st! I can't remember the last time I worked on a property that was this wet for this length of time. As mentioned in last weeks post, we're doing our best to maintain the courses given the current conditions. Mowing greens is performed daily since they're sand based and drain well. Unfortunately, repairing bunkers also seems to be a daily occurrence. Tees were walk mowed on Wednesday since they're too wet to support the normal riding mowers, and we're planning to walk mow approaches tomorrow as long as we don't get too much rain tonight. Fairways haven't been mowed since last Friday, and probably won't be mowed until next week. The smaller, articulating rough mowers have been out all week and are making good progress with minimal impacts. We haven't been able to send out the larger rough units for fear of them sliding into a bunker or pond, and causing major damage. Since we're unable to perform our regular mowing practices, we've stayed busy with detail work such as string trimming around trees, pond and creek banks, edging around and cleaning off irrigation heads and drains, daily filling of tee divots, and pruning low hanging branches over cart paths. We also started replacing the rubber mats covering the steps on the Lakes side driving range tee, similar to what we did on Lakes 2.
Let's hope the weekend forecast holds true and we get some much needed sunshine and lower humidity to start drying out!
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