Flooding on the Greens

Water isn’t only leaving the banks of the Muskingum River this week.

Creeks and ponds all over Southeast Ohio are overflowing as well. The pond at Green Valley Golf Course left its banks Thursday. Golf Pro Steve Galloway said it’s something they deal with each year. Despite dredging the pond and creek, the water still comes pouring out.

“Unfortunately when you’re dependent on mother nature like we are, every spring this happens, sometimes a little bit worse,” Galloway said. “Gradually, eventually the water will subside and we’ll get golfers back out on the golf course.”

But Galloway said that each time there’s a break in the weather, the avid golfers want to hit the fairway.

“Yesterday, even the water was over again yesterday, and as soon as the sun came out I had phone calls saying ‘hey, I think there’s a little window that we can get a round in.’ And they don’t realize that there’s an inch of water out on the golf course and greens are soft and spongy, but they still want to get their rounds of golf in,” Galloway said.

Even though it looks like the water will never go away, Galloway said the drainage on the course gets standing water off in no time at all. However, he did say the course will probably be walkers only for the remainder of the weekend.