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 From the News Desk...Storms cause havoc at Torrey PinesStorms that passed through the San Diego area last week made preparations for this week’s PGA Tour event at Torrey Pines a challenge. Nearly 4 inches of rain and winds topping 55 mph pounded the course owned by the city of San Diego just days before practice rounds and pro-am tournaments were to begin in advance of the PGA Tour’s Farmers Insurance Open. Wind and rain washed out bunkers and knocked over trees and tents that had been set up for the tournament that began Jan. 28. It is the second time in two months that the course in La Jolla had been plagued by high winds. A historic, picturesque cypress tree behind the North Course No. 6 green was toppled in December by a storm that brought winds of nearly 60 mph. City golf operations manager Jon Maddern, CGCS, and PGA Tour officials said the course, which was renovated in advance of the 2008 U.S. Open, can handle the rain just fine. Crews, however, were busy pumping water from bunkers and refilling them with sand. “The silt has to be shoveled off from the bottom of the bunkers, and the sand has to be shoveled back up to the face, and that’s an arduous process,” Paul Vermeulen, the PGA Tour’s director of competitions agronomy, told the San Diego Union-Tribune. The Wednesday pro-am was canceled while crews, including dozens of volunteers, worked to get the golf course into tournament shape. About 50 trees on both the North and South courses have been lost since December because of storms, Maddern told the newspaper. Most of the trees were eucalyptus. However, a mature Torrey pine on the South Course No. 4 green was lost, but will not affect play. No. 7 on the South Course should be considerably easier, however, after a giant eucalyptus in the dogleg went down. |
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