A week ago I was studying the forecast with pure excitement. We were scheduled for 0.5" of rain on Wednesday and then a sunny weekend going into this wekeend with our biggest member tournament of the year, our mens member-guest. I had it all planned out in my head with a nice shower, the golf course would really green-up, I could turf off irrigation for 5 days and only handwater what was needed, meaning the golf course would really firm and fast and playing well.
The 0.5" came on Wednesday as planned, it continued Wednesday evening with another 0.25', then continued throughout Wednesday night with another 0.65", then off and on rain all day Thursday with another 0.3", then rain Thursday night of 0.1", and more showers here Friday morning of 0.1". In all, 1.9" in the last 48 hours. Now for everybody in the other parts of the country like the Midwest and Northeast that is just an overnight shower, but for us in the West that is close to a 100 year flood.
The golf course had standing water on most greens and small rivers in the fairways. Fortunately it came down in a very nice slow steady rain that could soak in and is so valuable for our moisture level in the soil profile, all of our trees, native grasses, and agriculture land besides the golf course. We truly faired very well - only 3 bunkers had small washouts, worms casts were minimal, no trees came down, and overall just a wet soft golf course that kept our equipment off the course for two days. We are working hard today to try to catch up on mowing all areas of the course along with getting all of our detail and conditioning work done going into the Par 3 tournament this evening. Right now, baring any more rain, I see everything going off well for the 3 day weekend, and the golf couse will play very well. A little softer and slower than what our members have become accustomed too, but not bad given the circumstances.
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