Day 58: Rained out

No. 11 got a new lake. If you can see the little patch of
grass in the water to the right, that is where the lake used
to end. Everything on the left of the picture is new.

We were expecting a lot of rain over night. It rained all afternoon yesterday and into the evening and we could see water begin to puddle around the course. However, we weren't expecting the course to be turning into a lake overnight. The fairway of No. 18 was completely underwater when we got there this morning. The lake on No. 11 over flowed and created a waterfall into a new lake to the left of the teeing ground. Our tournament assistants were riding the course at one point to check the damage and as the drive on the cart path past No. 7, a fish flopped under their cart.

No. 18 fairway was ready for a pool party.

We immediately delayed the start time two hours (9:45 a.m.) and the ops staff got to leave. About 45 minutes later, at 6:45 a.m. The other comms got to head back to the hotel. Ben, our TD, had me stay to make updates on the website and make new signs every time we had a new announcement. After the rain didn't let up, we delayed the start time until 11 a.m. When it was 8:45 a.m., we pushed it back seven hours and 15 minutes to a 3:00 p.m. start. At noon, it was eight hours and 45 minutes delayed for a 4:30 p.m. start and finally at 3:00 p.m. they called it a day and announced that tee times had been delayed until tomorrow at 7:45 a.m. When it was made pretty clear that we weren't going to be playing golf today, I went ahead and made signs for every possible situation as well as type out the rest of the updates that we would post throughout the day. Around noon, I asked/begged Ben to let me go back to the hotel and take a nap. I was so tired! I could update the website from the hotel and, since it is just a five minute drive, I could always head back to the course if I needed to. Tschida, Moe and Brett came to pick me up... They're officially the best!

I hung out with the boys and watched Sports Center when I got back to the hotel--nothing will put me to sleep faster--and got in a little cat nap. When we were deciding what to do this afternoon, Tschida mentioned this indoor gaming place; we looked it up and couldn't resist! For just $30, you got unlimited bowling, bumper cars, laser tag and $10 worth of arcade tokens. Tschida, Moe, Brett, Michael and I went and it was so much fun! We were there from about 3:30-8 p.m. and had a blast! It was the perfect break from the chaos at the course.

Laser tag! Reliving our childhoods!