A season already late to start for Pasquia Golf Course due to extended snowfall in the Carrot River region will be even longer as the club now deals with “devastating” flood water.
“There’s not really much to say except it’s devastating to us,” longtime employee and pro-shop Manager Karen Gray told Golf Saskatchewan Monday afternoon. “But we won’t know the damage, the full amount of damage goes and it’s still rising”
An employee since 2014 at the course, and proshop manager since 2020 added that she hasn’t seen this amount of water in her time.
“I have never seen like this before, it has flooded. The gazebo down below on the island has been under water before, but that would happen slow, and it would happen in April, not May,” she said.
The course usually opens on Mother’s Day (weather pending), but Gray said at this point May Long Weekend may also be lost. She said that’s devastating for the club’s bottom line, especially coming the “best season they have ever had” at the course.
“This has been a long winter, a lot of snow, I was so excited to get back to work,” Gray said. “Our season hasn’t even started, and we feel defeated already, especially after last year, a dominant year for us, the best we have ever had in the history of the course.”
“We were raring to go, so this us a big hit,” she added.
It wasn’t all doom and gloom for Gray, she said the community around Pasquia is resilient and once the water does subside, she expects there will be no shortage of help to get the club running for the season.
“I believe completely once the water does descend, we’re going to have a lot of volunteers there helping to get it cleaned up and tuned into shape,” she concluded.