Sharp Park Golf Course has gone to the frogs

The Sharp Park Golf Course in Pacifica has been mostly closed for more than a month, reports the Pacifica Tribune.

The reason? Rain has flooded the fairway of the fourteenth hole, raising the level of a naturally occurring swampy pond that has been ruled a California Red-legged Frog breeding habitat. In essence, all the holes between the oceanfront berm and the clubhouse are off-limits to humans while the frogs recreate.

Apparently, the berm keeps the pond from draining, which causes the flooding. The Tribune says it’s ironic that the man-made berm has made the pond, which would normally be too brackish, into habitat. But it’s a double-edged irony because the berm was designed to control nature in that spot.