Mother Nature is giving Cleveland Country Club general manager and head golf professional Lamar Mills an early birthday present — fantastic weather.
She hasn’t been kind to him in the last year.
More than six inches of rain poured onto the course a year ago, forcing Mills to postpone the 2013 Cleveland Invitational until June. Then came a harsh winter, dumping enough snow and ice on pine trees that at least 15 no longer exist on the course. Storms that ripped through the area this week felled another tree.
And the slow start to spring has the course a few weeks behind schedule for the 10th annual Cleveland Invitational, which runs today and Sunday.
“The weight of snow snapped off limbs, we went through a weeklong process at the end of March of cleaning everything out, and we’re about three weeks from where we need to be,” Mills said Friday. “But I will sleep a lot easier tonight than I did last year, knowing that temps will be about 70 with zero percent chance of rain.”