January 2012
Cover Story: Extreme Weather 101
Even the most experienced superintendents learned from one of the most wicked weather years ever in golf course maintenance
By Larry Aylward
While taking shelter in the clubhouse basement at the Cimarron National Golf Club, Gene O'Brien could hear the harrowing tornado outside as it rumbled through the neighborhood like a Norfolk Southern freight train. But O'Brien, Cimarron's golf course superintendent, had no idea of the destruction the tornado was causing to the golf club and the surrounding area.
When the ferocious wind stopped blowing and O'Brien and others ventured outside, they saw a tree lying on the ground near the course's 10th tee. When O'Brien scanned the area some more, he saw downed trees ...
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