Good Heavy Rain

I have been asking for a nice heavy rain and we finally got one last night. We received 1.75" of rainfall accompanied with some high winds. The golf course however held up pretty well. Bunkers took a hit and so did a few limbs on some of our trees but all in all everything else withstood the storm pretty well. The staff is currently out mowing greens, repairing bunkers, and doing some limb cleanup. Carts will be on paths today as the fairways are very wet. However I do think with the dry conditions leading into this rain that things will dry out fairly quickly for the weekend. This week has been another fantastic week here in the maintenance department. We had a few hot summer days but the golf course really held up well. The little shot of rain we received on Sunday was very beneficial to the course and helped us get through those hot days a lot easier. Our fairways have really come around over the last week or so. It has been a long slow summer for the Zoysia grass but they are finally catching their stride I feel. Patching in the fairways has continued this week as we were able to do some more on #6 and #8. We spent the first part of the week checking the sand depths in our bunkers and moving the sand around to make our depths more uniform and consistent. However when you get rains like we did last night it makes the process of putting them back in shape a lot harder because they are washed out in places and we have to spend a lot of time fixing them. It looks like the extended forecast looks pretty good over the next 5 days or so as high temperatures are supposed to stay in the upper 80s which isn't too bad for this time of the year. Just a reminder that our fall aerification is scheduled for Tuesday September 2nd. I hope you all have a great week.