The Weekend Release

Craig’s Weekend Release Program
For the week of March 22nd thru March 27th

Course is Closed Tuesday March 22nd!!

Course Closure;
For all of you keeping score, Mother Nature-Infinity, Human’s-Zero. Sunday was the first day of spring on all the calendars around the world. Somebody forgot to tell that to the weather. On Sunday we had 5 inches of rain in a 7 hour period from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. I will be updating my blog with pictures, so hopefully by the time you get this you can go there and see the damage. The wind blew on an average of 15 miles per hour with guest up to 20 from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Needless to say the damage was as extensive as i have seen on a golf course. The ponds on number 3 look like giant mud ponds. The bunkers on 4 fairway have been washed out. The bathroom behind the number 4 green was buried with 18 inches of mud when we arrived this morning. Again there will be pictures of all of this and more discussion on my blog. The runoff that ends up sitting on the 1st and 10th fairways is substantial. There is tons of silt built up and all of the fairway bunkers on 1 are being drained all day. We did lose a tree on 10. The tree on the right side of the tee box feel over the path and onto one of our irrigation control boxes. We don’t know the extent of the damage yet. The irrigation lake on 16 is to it’s limit and the overflow drain we built a year and a half ago is working very well. All this to say that the golf course will be closed tomorrow. The staff needs to rebuild a bunch of the bunkers and clean up the fairways before we can get golfers on it. Our goal is to be open on Wednesday. The really issue is what will the next storm bring us that is supposed to be here starting Wednesday for 3 days.

Building Hours;
The Pro Shop will be open tomorrow from 7:00 until 5:00.

The Kitchen and Bar will be open from 8:00 until 5:00.

All these times are general and not written in concrete...if it seems we should stay open later we will.

We will be canceling all the Junior Programs for this week as we don’t know when the Range will be reopened.