It depends who you want to listen to as to what is going to happen rainwise next week but after this week we've had enough thanks.  Only 125mm for the week but every time we sprayed, it seemed to rain within the hour and wash the product off the leaf.  Not to mention the washout for the WPGA tour school on Monday and Tuesday which was really disappointing.  The course was coming together so well and with a two hour head start on the field we were really getting the place looking sharp.  The photo below is of the prepped LHS bunker on 3W taken at 7.31am just as the field hit off.  The first group got to the 1st green and had marked their balls when 30mm of rain in 40 minutes hit us and washed everything away.  A quickly re-scheduled 1pm shotgun was again washed out with a 15mm downpour around 2pm but they re-started and finished on dark.  A couple of really good scores in the conditions as well which was very impressive.  Tuesday converted to a 9am shotgun and they got through in 4.15 hours which given what was at stake was some pretty fast play.

CEO of the WPGA Tour Karen Lunn penned the following which was nice to hear that the boys efforts are not missed - 

On behalf of Swanno and myself, I would like to say a huge thanks to you and the boys for all your help earlier this week at the qualifying tournament.

I cannot thank you and all of the staff for their hard work which was instrumental in us getting the event completed.

We are very grateful for everything you did which of course included getting the course in mint condition following on from the Christmas storms before the deluge this week. 

LHS 3W ready to go.  😞

 

And given the persistent rain this poor old Butcher bird sought some respite under the eaves of the pump shed.

Kind of know how he feels.