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COURSES
OB SPORTS GOLF & LEISURE
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FALL 2017
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STORM
TROOPERS
n TWO OB SPORTS-MANAGED
COURSES BATTLE BACK FROM
HURRICANES HARVEY AND IRMA
BY judd spicer
hunter's creek Golf club
withstood hurricane irma.
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urricane season hit a pair
of OB Sports-managed
courses hard. The courses
hit back even harder.
In August, Hurricane Harvey
rampaged the Houston, Texas, area
with historic force, ultimately drop-
ping more than 60 inches of rain in
certain regions and being recorded
as the wettest tropical storm in U.S.
history.
"I've never seen anything to that
extent," says Cody Spivey, General
Manager at High Meadow Ranch
Golf Club in Houston's Magnolia re-
gion. "We had flooding on Memo-
rial Day the year previous, and in
April we had another flood. But
none of them, nothing, has matched
Harvey."
After being pounded by 33 inches
of rain in three days, High Meadow
Ranch looked to be in high trouble.
"We were very fortunate com-
pared to most of the golf courses in
the Houston area, though we did re-
ceive our share of damage," Spivey
said. "Most of the damage was on
our front loop of holes, which has a
creek running through it; specifi-
cally, holes two, three and four.
Those are the ones that flood and
the water gets way out of the creek
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