If by chance you haven’t been to the course since last Thursday, I can tell you the temper tantrum that “Large Marge” threw on Friday caused quite the mess. On a positive note no trees came down in the Nor’easter that we all might have anticipated hitting us in April.
But the large amount of sticks, pine cones and branches that came down made navigating the fairways to the greens a bit of a challenge. With the amount of leaves that were blown off the trees, it was surprising that there were any left in the canopy of the trees. As you know on weekends and holidays we have only half our staff on, so we were lucky to get the fairways blown off, greens blown off and mowed, and the holes changed ahead of any play on Saturday morning.
Thanks to my crew for getting the course even remotely playable before the split tee at 7am.
Thanks to the golfer for being patient and understanding especially with the noise of the blower’s mere feet from many trying to hit a tee shot or sink a putt, and my apologies for all the carts driving in the way of play while we hauled debris off the golf course to the dump. We have no choice but to throw all courtesy out the window for being still and quiet while we are near play in order to get anything done when such a storm causes such a mess.
Even with the full staff here first thing Monday morning, I expect it will take us all week to even come close to finishing the clean up. Take into consideration that we still have all our regular jobs that cannot be ignored. The 2 inches of rain did bring 23 days of drought to an end and is sure to help top up out reservoir and return some green, to many brown spots we had.
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