Drum roll, please...

We finally had a chance to tally the precipitation for 2018, and the total was 70.55".  Yes, that's a whole lot of water, but how does it compare to an average year?  The chart below shows what we typically receive per month, which adds up to 48.3" for the year.  So we were a whopping 46% over the long-term average for an entire year!

If you are still unimpressed by a number like 70.55", let's take a quick look at how many gallons of water came through the golf course last year.  While the course property itself is 237 acres, most of the surrounding development drains onto the course, for a total of around 490 acres.

So here's the math:
70.55" (precipitation) x 27,154 (gallons of water per acre inch) x 490 (acres) = 938,700,203 gallons

Sorry if you're disappointed that we didn't quite hit one billion gallons of water flowing through the property, but we sure came close.

 To look at this amount of water in a final way, consider that on average, for each and every one of the 365 days in 2018, over 2.5 million gallons of water came onto and through the golf course.  Well, at least that explains why the range picker got stuck so often...