I am sharing a portion of a post from the East Lake Agronomy blog, that I follow. My hats off to these fellows! The pictures below are what most people don't see when a PGA event leaves town. The carnage of thousands of spectators and TV crews. In the past, I've taken part in several major events at different courses and recovering from this will take another 6 months, easily. In fact, the damage created at Augusta National by the patrons is re-sodded all summer long, and only starts to look good when ryegrass germination commences after September over-seeding. At St. Andrews, it was a little bit easier since most traffic is kept in the native fescue areas and the firm sandy soils handle traffic much better. The recipe for disaster is the addition of rain during the event. You can see, it won't stop the camera crews and spectators! Enjoy:
The 2015 TOUR Championship sponsored by Coca-Cola will be a hard event to
forget. From the player comments about the course conditioning (all positive!)
to the crowning of a great champion (Jordan Spieth), it was a great tournament.
However, the rain that began falling Thursday evening after the first round and
continued through Tuesday following the tournament turned this great tournament
into an enormous challenge for the Agronomy Team. Despite numerous emails from
PGA Tour staff, vendors, television crews, tour volunteers, Shotlink crews,
ecology crews and the list goes on and on, all seemed to think those emails were
not meant for them. The following photos are a small sample of the challenges we
face as our growing season starts to end.
