A total of 14.18” or 134,828,183 gallons of rain fell on the Glen Eagle property last week, bringing our June total to 16.43”.
What was amazing was the rain stopped Thursday evening and by Saturday we had no cart path restrictions. We were lucky that the lakes had previously been low so there was a lot of holding capacity for all that water. The lakes did come up 46” and were full to the brim. Another factor that allowed the course to dry faster was the 45 million holes we poked in the ground over the 2 weeks prior to the rain. All those channels allowed water to penetrate deeper into the soil leaving the surface drier sooner.
We couldn’t do much if any maintenance last week so conditions this past weekend were as unkept as I have seen since being at Glen Eagle. Greens basically lost a week of filling in due to lack of sunlight and the sand we had applied was pushed out or packed more tightly into the aerification holes, leaving the green surfaces bumpy.
We hit the ground running first thing Monday morning and I am happy to say a lot of progress was made this week.
Here is a video of the tasks we focused on to get the course back in to shape and some pictures of the results…
Just a heads up, the fountain at the front entrance stopped working last week. Our lake maintenance company was out on Thursday to asses the issue and we will get it back up and running as quickly as possible.
I look forward to seeing everyone on the course (when it dries out), and as always, if you have any questions, flag me down or shoot me an email. I always enjoy talking turf!
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