The course has been a touch crispy this fall at Rammler Golf Course in Sterling Heights.

Greenskeepers can't irrigate as regularly as they'd like, course general manager Paul Duda said. The irrigation system draws water from the Clinton River, which winds through the golf course. This summer, the river's flow has been so low that the course's 600-head sprinkler system gets clogged with silt if greenskeepers turn it on.

"When it goes into a drought like this, everyone that's in this business has had to make sacrifices," Duda said.

Michigan is having a dry spell. More than 40% of the state is in a drought, and an additional 20% is abnormally dry, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a service provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Agricul

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