Glen Eagle Maintenance (6/14/24)

 Golf Course

Well, in just a few days we went from here…

To here…

Since Saturday morning, we have had 13.35” of rain, 11.55” of that was Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday and it is still raining! After this week I am sure I have given up on “normal” weather.

By comparison, last summer, May thru September, we only had 25”. Looks like we are well underway to surpassing last summers total. Keep in mind last summer was unusually dry and we will still have a ways to go to reach our normal summer total which is around 60”.

As you can see from the pictures above, with this week’s rain, our lakes are up over 40” from last week.

Here are some interesting numbers. We have approx. 65 acres of turf on the course. Water at a depth of 1 foot over 1 acre (1 acre/foot) equals very close to 326,000 gallons. So just on our course grass 21,190,000 gallons of water has fallen in the last week. I think that helps us understand why the course is cart path only. 😂

The rain has limited how much mowing we have been able to accomplish this week. As a result, we have raised the heights of fairways and have some scalping as we mow the roughs.

You can see in this picture the roughs were scalped leaving a yellow appearance and how even at higher HOC, we are still cutting a lot of grass off the fairways. 

Roughs are growing like gangbusters…

Rain has made a mess of our bunkers too. The good news is the drainage seems to be working well.

The course hot spots are all gone, only green grass and beautiful skies from here…

We are literally treading water right now, but hopefully this rain will clear out of here this weekend so we can get the course cleaned up and back normal condition soon.

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!