May showers brings May flowers?

After an extremely dry April, mother nature seems determined to make up some lost ground.  In the past week and a half we have received over four inches and rain, and it is still raining here on Monday afternoon.  Until yesterday the rains had been fairly modest, but had been enough to make the golf course green and moist again.  Yesterdays rains were not quite so kind.  A thunderstorm rolled through early in the afternoon dropping .8 inches of rain in just over 30 minutes, and more storms rolled through over night hammering us with another 1.3 inches!  It has been sprinkling for most of the day today with the rain becoming steady at times, not a good way to dry out the course from yesterdays deluges.  The course is completely saturated right now, and the chances of allowing carts on the course tomorrow are pretty slim.  As always, we will be constantly evaluating the cart situation so pray for sun and wind!

Last night's storms were very active with lighting, and this tree on the west side of 18 fairway got the worst of it.  The lightning blew some pretty large chunks off the tree and some of the debris from the tree was thrown 60 feet.  There was also another tree struck by lightning on the fenceline to the south of the 14th hole during the afternoon thunderstorm.  These trees should be a reminder of why it's important to get off the course when there is lightning in the area.