From a drought to too much rain in one quick week.  Such is the nature of this business.  The course received 6.2 inches since Wednesday and now we are begging for the course to dry up.  We are working hard to get the greens in prime Springfield condition as we prepare for our club championship and are seeing improvement in the greens daily.

It is a beautiful site to have the sun shining and the lake full of water.  We did not have to purchase any water during the drought.

Our greens are very chlorotic from all the rain and are benefiting from the sunshine.

Besides the yellowing of the turf we experienced some etiolation or mad tillering in our fairways.  Etiolation is the rapid growth of weak leggy stems from lack of sunlight.  Regular mowing and sunlight cures this.

 The ninety degree rule is impractical and doesn't work.  Please enter the fairway once you past the green post and stay IN the fairway until you reach the white posts near the green.  Once in-once out!  That has a nice sound to it and was 'borrowed' from a neighbor club.

 Foxes continue to be a nuisance.  Here a repair was done in the seventh green for the second time.

A sinkhole developed on the sixth hole from all the rain and exposed a contractor mistake from twenty years ago.  The blue pipe is the irrigation mainline that was trenched in.  The trenched damaged the concrete drainage pipe underneath and it eventually failed.  A real head scratcher.

The fairways are making great progress.