As the Swift Current Creek's water levels have risen, more and more areas of Swift Current have been affected.

One such area is the Elmwood Golf and Country Club. The rising water has caused cart paths and low points of the course to be under water.  

Sheldon Reinhart, general manager at Elmwood, said that the water has started to recede.

"I took a peek, and the creek is up quite a bit, but we don't see there being too much damage," he said. "I think over the next couple of days the water is going to flow down and things will be back to normal probably by Friday."

Reinhart said that they can't do anything to the holes that are affected except wait for the course to dry. 

"Nothing that we can tell right now," he said. "There are some parts of the golf course that are covered with water, but talking with my superintendent, he doesn't foresee any major damage because of the water."

Reinhart said that though some of the course is still being affected by the water, they still plan to open the course.

"We are going to open nine holes on Friday," he said. "Once the creek goes down, and we can get out bridges then we'll be up to 18 holes. Probably earlier next well we'll be playing the 15 holes that are on the east side of the golf course and the sooner the water goes down then we can get the bridges in and get golfing all 18 holes and hopefully, that happens sooner rather than later."

He said that flooding isn't something unique to Elmwood.

"There are certain years where it's a lot worse," he said. "This is probably in the top two or three that I've seen regards to the flooding but it's something that the natural terrain of the golf course over the years has had, it's kind of used to these once-every-four-or-five-year floods."

Reinhart added that there isn't much they can do to avoid flooding.

"The creek can only go in one direction and one area, and there's not a lot we can do in regards to stopping the water flow," he said. "The natural terrain on the three holes that we have the creek run through, kind of keeps the flooding into those certain areas and just sort of over the hundreds of years the fairways have sloped certain ways because of that. It's something that usually gets fixed pretty quickly once the water slows down."

Reinhart added that once the course opens he doesn't expect they will have any restricted areas where the course hasn't dried, but if they do they will rope them off.