Wet and Soggy Conditions

The wet and soggy conditions continue here in Kansas City.  As many of you have probably heard by now the golf course went under water on Sunday May 17th for the first time this year after we received 3.25".  I have seen way worse floods here over the years, however any flood is a bad one.   We had several fairways and roughs silted in from the water and our bunkers really took a hit.  The maintenance team worked their butts off the last two days and we were able to get all the bunkers and silt cleaned up and most of the golf course mowed on Tuesday.  Their are still quite a few wet areas that we were unable to mow, but all in all I was very surprised and pleased that we got done what we did. Shockingly we were able to get fairways mowed on Tuesday afternoon after they finally dried out. Since there were so many seed heads the quality of the cut wasn't up to our normal standards.  We are hoping to be able to mow the fairways again on Thursday or Friday if conditions allow us too.  Rain came again last night and gave us another 1" bringing our weekly total so far to 4.25".  Course conditions again are pretty sloppy as water is standing in the fairways.  The bunkers are pretty good except for a few areas that washed a bit.  We are able to mow the greens this morning as they have surprising stayed very firm after all the rain.  This is a testament to our agronomic program we use and keeping our water peculation rates high in the green profile allowing the rain water to move through and drain out quickly.  I have put a few pictures from the flood below.  Have a great week and keep your fingers crossed that "Mother Nature" lets up on us a bit this week and next!