Monday, May 23, 2011

Storm Damage/Straight Line Winds

The course experienced a fairly substantial wind event today around 12:30 p.m.  We've lost at least 4 trees in which 3 are in main play areas.  Large limbs fell out of a couple of other trees which need to be evaluated for potential removal.  Debris and limbs are down on every hole.  The course will be closed on Tuesday until about 12:00 noon to allow our staff time to get the playing surfaces in reasonably good shape and to begin the removal of some of the downed trees.   
Little Leaf Linden behind 16 green along the road.  Ironically, I had a tree service injecting insecticide into this tree just a couple of hours before the storm.  Our tree service person suspected that the tree would be falling due to root girdling.  His premonition was correct.
A large oak that fell across the fence line onto # 1 underneath the large white oak on the right side of the hole.
Large part of a silver maple which fell on the right side of #1 before the green.
Almost 1/2 of a large pin oak on the left side of #4 that fell across the path into the fairway.  This beautiful oak tree will need to be removed due to this large section falling off of the tree.

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