Stormy Weather

Bunker #6 greenside after last Friday's rain


#3 greenside bunker with new sand, I believe that rain was as back as it can get, as you can see this bunker could be raked out, the question is will this sand percolate like this in 3 years?

Lightening strike 4inch irrigation pipe at driving range

the pipe the lightening struck

the pipe repaired with 4inch pipe and 4inch knock-on,

if you look closely you can see red and yellow cables under the pipe, these hopefully were not affected by the lightening

The storms late last week brought much needed rain to our area. We ended up getting .75inch on Wednesday, .25inch on Thursday, and 3.5inch on Friday. The rain we received on Friday was a flash flood type downpour with a lot of lightening. When we receive this amount of lightening we run the risk of it striking trees, irrigation lines, and irrigation cables.

We are now in the process of picking up after the storm. If we do not get any more bad weather we will hopefully be back to normal on Wednesday.

Bunker Work

As you all know the bunkers at Squire Creek are a penalty for the golfer but also a penalty for the grounds crew. We recently have started to redo the bunker in front of 3 green. Over the years the bunker has washed so many times that is has created large amounts of silt and organic matter build up in the bottom of the bunker. This creates a drainage nightmare, the silt settles on the gravel layer over the drainage pipe and it becomes very slow to drain. We have now taken out all the old sand and gravel. We cleaned the pipe, replaced the gravel, and are going back with a liner over the whole bunker. Then we will adding Premier White bunker sand. This sand is a very course sand, it is actually crushed quartz. So it has an extremely high percolation rate, which is great for us.