Mike,
May I ask where you got those pics? I would like to see if there are more of Springhouse.....
The photos brought back more memories. One, Larry Nelson proposed the second green be sort of perched out over the bank on the Cumberland to get it really close to the water. It certainly would be gone by now. And of course, we had to balance the cut and fill to attain "compensatory storage" to in theory prevent worse flooding....Our first runs of cut and fills did not do this and the regulators made us redo them. For fun, the engineers ran the plan through their flood modeling program and determined that if we had filled the entire 200 acre site 10 feet, it would have raised flood levels 0.1 feet downstream. I understand why they don't make exceptions, but a flood like this shows why engineers over design everything, as well as the really theoretical nature of such things.
I gather that if they have now kept records for 100 years, 8 inches of rain in 24 hours is the new 100 year storm for Nashville. The funny thing is, for most areas, the big storms like that are associated with hurricanes and the like. That really was an unusual storm.
While there can be no bright side to such large flooding, in looking at the photos of the 12th green at Vanderbilt Legends Club, I think we have discovered a new bunker edging technique - flood cutting!