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Friday, February 22, 2008

Round of Golf?

Panama City Beach- “This is the worst I’ve seen since I’ve been working here. Usually it rains for just a couple of hours and it quits and we’re back in business. This is going to take a couple of days to get over this for sure,” said Signal Hill Golf Course worker Paul Alsobrook.

Rain, one of the many enemies of a golfer, and a major nuisance to anyone involved with running a golf course.

The Signal Hill Golf Course is showing the effects of too much rain. Yes, the flooding makes the course look like its just one giant pond hole.

This is pretty bad out there today. It was very wet and sort of jumping from puddle to puddle,” said golfer John Doherty.

This amount of flooding may slow down the number of golfers wanting to come out and play, but it won’t slow down the course from getting back to tip top shape.

“Some of the newer courses have drain systems all over their entire golf course. We use mostly natural exists for the water,” Alsobrook said.

“I don’t think this course will take very long at all I understand they have some very good drainage ditches here, they’ll probably be up and at it tomorrow,” said Doherty.

That’s the plan for Signal Hill, to be back up and running as soon as possible.

“You can’t do anything, you can’t prepare for the rain, you know, there’s nothing you can do about it,” said Alsobrook.

The rain and floods haven’t stopped some golfers from hitting the links. It’s just another course obstacle.

“No water can hold us down. They don’t make enough.

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