Ouch

This morning we had a massive hydraulic oil leak on one of the fairway mowers on the 15th fairway.

This is about as bad as it gets for this type of situation.  It was just about the longest pass the operator made on this fairway and it started at the beginning of his pass.  The leak was behind him, so there was no chance for him to know what was happening until he turned to make is next pass.  When he turned and saw it, he did the right thing and drove through the rough directly to a cart path and stopped the machine.

Unfortunately, the damage was already done as this grass has essentially zero chance of survival.  Tomorrow we will be resodding this area with sod from another fairway, probably the small fairway on 16 short of the creek, and that area will be reseeded.  Another fairway needs to be used so that the turf we bring in will closely match the turf on the rest of the fairway.  The sod lines will be visible, but we would like to make the transition as disguised as possible especially since it's directly across the middle of the fairway.