July 16, 2015
Golf Course Flooding
The road to recovery for
Dallas-Forth Worth *** FATAL FACT ERROR:
DALLAS-FORT WORTH, STED DALLAS-FORTH WORTH. SPELL CHECK WILL NOT CATCH A
SPELLING ERROR THAT CREATES A CORRECTLY-SPELLED AND UNINTENDED WORD, SO WE NEED
TO RUN SPELL CHECK AND EYEBALL EACH NOUN *** golf courses is still in
effect ONGOING, STED IN EFFECT for those
devastated by the record rainfall experienced in May.
DFW golf was severely impacted by
the heavy rains with some courses still indefinitely closed, while other
courses have faced an easier recovery process from the flooding that shut them
down.
Two courses that sit on different
sides of Lake Lewisville remained closed, HOW
DO WE KNOW THIS? ATTRIBUTE but the immediate future of Lake Park Golf Club
looks brighter than that of Old American Golf Club currently.
Lake Park General Manger Garrett
Peek said he expects nine holes to reopen as soon as Monday, July 20, with all
18 expected to be in action in about two weeks time. START NEW PARAGRAPH HERE; ONLY ONE MAIN POINT OR ONE SUPPORTING POINT
OR ONE QUOTE PER GRAF Peek said, “We had no damages here, so once the water
receded we were able to start cleaning up and mowing to get the course ready
again.”
Old American Golf Club General Manager
Mike McCabe was not as optimistic saying that he has no estimated time of
reopening at the moment. With Lake Lewisville *** INCORRECT NAME: IT’S LEWISVILLE LAKE, NOT LAKE LEWISVILLE
http://www.swf-wc.usace.army.mil/lewisville/ *** reaching the highest point
in its history at 537 feet, Old American has a waiting process ahead. START NEW PARAGRAPH HERE; ONLY ONE MAIN
POINT OR ONE SUPPORTING POINT OR ONE QUOTE PER GRAF “Lake Lewisville is
currently sitting at about 530.95 feet and it needs to be below 526 to be
completely off the golf course,” McCabe said.
According to AvidGolfer magazine,
DFW set a 115-year record in May with 16.96 inches of rain falling following an
already above average amount of rainfall in April. THIS IS WEAK SOURCING; INSTEAD OF USING OTHER MEDIA, JUST CALL A
WEATHER FORECASTER AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, OR EVEN AT ONE OF THE AREA
TV STATIONS. PLUS, THAT SOURCE WOULD BE A GREAT NEUTRAL EXPERT ON THE SUBJECT
This is the complete opposite end
of the spectrum from North Texas precipitation in 2014, which received only
21.32 inches of precipitation, the second lowest amount since 1963, according
to AvidGolfer magazine. THIS IS WEAK
SOURCING; INSTEAD OF USING OTHER MEDIA, JUST CALL A WEATHER FORECASTER AT THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, OR EVEN AT ONE OF THE AREA TV STATIONS
Courses that sat on bodies of water
were not the only ones suffering from the downpours. START NEW PARAGRAPH HERE; ONLY ONE MAIN POINT OR ONE SUPPORTING POINT
OR ONE QUOTE PER GRAF “We had rain 23 of 31 days in May,” said Bridlewood
Golf Club General Manger *** FATAL FACT
ERROR: MANAGER, STED MANGER. SPELL
CHECK WILL NOT CATCH A SPELLING ERROR THAT CREATES A CORRECTLY-SPELLED AND
UNINTENDED WORD, SO WE NEED TO RUN SPELL CHECK AND EYEBALL EACH NOUN *** Jerry Graham. “We had limited customers on
many of those days, because not very many golfers want to play in those
elements.”
Bridlewood was not unable to escape
the flooding completely. Bridlewood Superintendent Jay Tinsley said the entire
green on hole nine was under water. START
NEW PARAGRAPH HERE; ONLY ONE MAIN POINT OR ONE SUPPORTING POINT OR ONE QUOTE
PER GRAF To clean up trash and debris as well as clear off the water,
Tinsley said, “We had to exhaust all eight of us on staff for the entire day to
get that green cleaned up. We had to rake and blow silt away and even pressure
wash the green.”
Tinsley said that on most days
following the rain they were able to get the course operational again, in terms
of the front nine open, within four or five hours each day.
“The struggle we faced was water
blocking the tunnels to get to hole 11 and that made it difficult to get the
whole course going,” Tinsley said.
At Old American, the scale of
flooding was substantially larger with 12 greens completely submerged by water
and 16 holes being affected in some way, according to McCabe. START NEW PARAGRAPH HERE; ONLY ONE MAIN
POINT OR ONE SUPPORTING POINT OR ONE QUOTE PER GRAF “The greens here were
completely submerged for 47 days, and the fairways and tee boxes here are still
submerged currently on day 65 (July 15),” McCabe said.
The road to recovery was a similar waiting
process at both Lake Park and Old American, with little to do otherwise. Because
it was not rushing water, the damages were non-existent for the most part; rather
it was a clean up effort once the water receded. START NEW PARAGRAPH HERE; ONLY ONE MAIN POINT OR ONE SUPPORTING POINT
OR ONE QUOTE PER GRAF “It is like a bath tub you just have to wait for the
water to drain before you can do much of anything,” McCabe said.
McCabe said the recovery process,
following the water receding, has included taking soil samples to send to labs.
This was to determine if there would be any long lasting effects of the
flooding and what cultivation practices to take to help the golf course.
Right now the prominent issue Old
American is facing is algae in the fairways as the water recedes back. If not
cleared right away it will suffocate the grass. With the bermuda grass Old
American uses, they have a small window of opportunity for it to grow, said
McCabe. START NEW PARAGRAPH HERE; ONLY
ONE MAIN POINT OR ONE SUPPORTING POINT OR ONE QUOTE PER GRAF “Once it hits
September and October there is not a chance it can grow through the winter and
we may have to try again next year,” said McCabe.
Tinsley said, “The best thing to do
at any course is to salvage what you can, access the situation, and figure out
lake levels.” For most places, it really messed up schedules and the daily
maintenance routines, and that was one of the most difficult parts, Tinsley
said.
The recent weather has improved the
situation for almost every course. With May and June being the biggest budgeted
months for most courses in North Texas, the financial recovery process will
continue to be difficult around DFW.
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Mike McCabe
Old American Golf Club General
Manger
972-998-3035
Jerry Graham
Bridlewood Golf Club General Manager
Bridlewood Golf Club General Manager
972-355-4800
jgraham@bridlewoodgolf.com
jgraham@bridlewoodgolf.com
Jay Tinsley
Superintendent Bridlewood Golf Club
Garrett Peek
Lake Park Golf Course General
Manager
972-219-4661
AvidGolfer Magazine, July 2015
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INSTRUCTOR COMMENTS: THE BIGGEST PROBLEM HERE IS FATALS. WE NEED TO NOT
SIMPLY RELY ON SPELL CHECK AND MAKE SURE THAT WE DOUBLE-CHECK WITH OUR OWN EYES
EVERY NOUN (PERSON, PLACE OR THING), EVERY TITLE, EVERY STATISTICAL UNIT, AND
THE ENTIRETY OF EVERY QUOTE TO MAKE SURE WHAT WE WROTE WAS CORRECT AND WHAT WE
INTENDED TO WRITE. BEYOND THAT, WE NEEDED SOME NEUTRAL EXPERTS, LIKE A WEATHER
FORECASTER WHO COULD OCMMENT ON THE CLIMATOLOGY AND A TURF SPECIALIST WHO COULD
COMMENT ON THE DIFFICULTIES BEING FACED BY GOLF EXPERTS THERE, IRONICALLY, MSU
HAS MANY SUCH EXPERTS AS THE SCHOOL IS THE WORLD’S LEADER FOR TURF RESEARCH, SO
ONE COULD HAVE BEEN EASILY FOUND. PLUS, OUR GRAFS ARE TOO BIG; WE NEED TO MAKE
SURE WE SEPARATE PARAPHRASES FROM QUOTES AND PUT EACH IN ITS OWN GRAF TO LET
OUR MAIN POINTS AND SUPPORTING QUOTES
STAND OUT FROM EACH OTHER. AND WE SHOULD NOT BE CITING OTHER MEDIA; IF THEY
COULD GET THE INFO FROM SOMEWHERE, THEN WE NEED TO GET THE INFO FROM WHEREVER
THEY GOT THE INFO. MEDIA CANNOT JUST CITE OTHER MEDIA; AT SOME POINT, SOMEONE
IS GOING TO HAVE TO GET THEIR OWN INFO DIRECTLY.
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