February Rains!

We have received more than 10 inches of rain during the month of February here at Colleton River Plantation, causing our golf courses to be much wetter than normal.  While our lagoon levels are getting back to normal and we are catching up on the shortages of rainfall that we have experienced over the past year, it does cause a few issues.  

The Nicklaus Course was closed on Monday and Tuesday, February 25-26 for a "mini-aerification".  Because we have received 2.4 inches of rain over the past 48 hours, we were able to aerify the greens with a quarter inch solid tine, however we were not able to topdress the greens and do some of the other normal practices we wanted to complete during this closure.  Therefore, the greens will have small holes that will be visible but should putt fine.  We will topdress and roll the greens throughout the week with as little disruption to play as possible.  In addition, we will be repairing the washed edges of the bunkers, as seen in the picture below and scraping the bottoms from silt washing into them.