Not much to report from the courses this week with three very warm days in the middle that were a bit of a shock to the system.  We were able to get another sanding on to the West greens to help them level up after the renovation and they will probably need another as do the River greens which will hopefully happen next week.

We finished up with spot on 110mm of rain last week which was just what was needed and as I mentioned last week almost all of it soaked in which was really beneficial.  

I have mentioned bunker raking on here many a time and saw a couple this week that make you wonder why we bother raking or maintaining them at all.  Recently with the strong winds we have had to do a lot of blowing to get the leaves out as most bunkers are very good leaf collectors.  The blowing has reduced the frequency of raking but when you see this it makes you wonder why we do rake.  The top photo is 16W fairway bunker within an hour of being raked today and there is zero attempt to make any effort of repairing the footmarks.  The bottom one is of 8R greenside first thing in the morning so it has been wet down by overnight irrigation but you can still see the unrepaired footmarks where the legend played five shots and I assume got out on the fifth.  Perhaps the only consolation is that they didn't walk up the bunker face to get out.  Please leave the bunkers the way you would like to find them!!

Are these your footprints??

Maybe time for a bunker lesson?