Bunkers holding up to heavy rain storm as advertised!

Last night we got our first really strong thunderstorm of the year, an inch of rain which fell over the course of about an hour!  This rush of water made quite the mess around the golf course, but one place that was a pleasant surprise....the new bunkers!  While in the old days it would have taken our whole crew the better part of 2 days just to fix the bunkers, the new bunkers performed flawlessly for the most part, and hardly washed out at all.  Some normal raking this morning was all it took to smooth out and prepare the bunkers for daily play.  Take a look at the pictures below to show you the results we found this morning between two different bunkers on #7 Overlook.

Here is a picture of the old bunker we left on #7 Overlook.  You can see how badly it washed out and held water last night during the rain.  Last year all 65 bunkers would look similar to this after a heavy downpour, requiring hours of manual labor to push the sand back up!

  Why did we leave this bunker and renovate all the others?  Because we are planning to fill it in a build a new forward tee next to where it is located.  We will do this in a few weeks once the grass greens up!

Here is a picture of the bunker right next to the old bunker in the previous picture.  You can see the sand washing on the top side, but very minimal compared to what the old bunker looked like.  The new capillary concrete bunker liner helps to drain water very quickly, preventing the washouts as these pictures have illustrated.  This will save us a lot of money in labor over the years since we will no longer have to push all the sand back up!