A lot has happened

It's been a while since I last posted and I hope to provide some catch up to everyone reading this.  The first and foremost is the weather.  June turned out to be the fourth wettest on record.  This has made things very lush, but also set up up for some rather delicate issues for the summer.

First this is what the radar seems to look like day after day.

Once the rain has come and gone,  I then receive a posting of the diseases most like to be present during this period.  As you can see, almost every disease known to turfgrass is present.   The Poa annua on the greens is susceptible to almost all of these.

As soon as we plan a course of action again comes the rain making areas not only unplayable but unmanageable as well.  Not sure how to treat, mow or travel around in these conditions.

Once the sun comes out, this is usually what we find as we attempt to put things back together again.  The sand restoration process is about as miserable as it comes.  Shoveling wet heavy hand into washout areas and then removing the silt by hand, and reloading new sand back into the bunker.  If this happened once or twice it is a process that drains you physically for a day or two, but the repetitive nature of this years storms has made this a job no one wants to see their name attached to in the morning.

We hope to see a return to a normal pattern, But we know that the one thing we can count on is not knowing the pattern for the rest of the summer.