My home course flooded.

[Jimbo Slice]

My home course (Desert Rose) flooded yesterday. It usually floods one our twice each summer when the monsoon rains hit, but this one was bad. A maintenance worker from the course was actually reported missing , and I don't think he has showed up yet either. All golfers at the course had their cars trapped in the parking lot due to rising water and could not leave. Some pf them made the best of it and putted around on the two greens near the clubhouse that where still above water. It was really crazy and the video I took doesn't do it much justice.

15 of the 18 holes where completely covered in rushing water at one point, most of the greens stayed above water though. All the practice areas where hit pretty hard. The driving range had rushing water on it, and the putting and pitching greens where covered in water and debris.

Video

An hour before this photo, rushing water covered this entire fairway.

That green is jacked up

[Beachcomber]

Wow... That sucks about the maintence guy.  Did they find him yet?

Also, I'm surprised the course hasn't drudged out that stream to make a better wash area so that course doesn't flood?  I lived in AZ - and the wash areas are very deep so that the chances of the flood waters encroaching them are slim.

[Dave2512]

I hope the missing man is found. That's the worst of it.

[BuckeyeNut]

Agreed....I hope the worker is found safe.

I avoid buying memberships at golf courses in flood plains at all costs.  I belonged to one of those courses back in the mid 1990s and learned my lesson the hard way.  It's not worth the hassle....