A great week on the courses and I have to say they are looking a treat as we head towards winter.  Two mornings this week under 20 degrees in the shed compound @ 5am with this morning down to 17 so the slide is on although the days are perfect at this time of year.

Mondays ''Masters shotgun'' gave us the opportunity to do a pretty much full prep for the comp with a 10am shotgun.  The whole course was blown, mown and raked and looked great for the start.  Nice to hear pro Jared say the course was ''superb'' which it was.  Another shotgun start today on the River course with limited play prior offered  the same opportunity and again the course looked great although given it was a brewery promotional day they may not remember.  Disappointing when you drive around the course just before hit off and see this on 16R after only about thirty players had gone through in the morning.

Don't know how you could leave that?

 

The irrigation system installation continues and 5W was completed this week so we now have five holes successfully completed.  Last weeks ''first run'' went off nearly perfectly.  I say nearly as I was sitting waiting to watch the first spray come on and somehow the time on my phone was a minute faster than the computer so the launch was a minute later than I was expecting.  One of the longest minutes as I pondered what I had done wrong!! 

I mentioned earlier that one of the features of the new system is the ability to water greens and green surrounds separately.  This is going to become a real water saver as the runtime for each spray on the greens will be less than half of what we used previously based on this weeks trials.  The completed holes 5 - 8W have some of the heaviest green surrounds that hold moisture for a long time so it was perfect timing for them to not be overwatered this week following last weeks deluges.

We move on to 4R next week which will be followed by 5R then back across to 4 and 10W.

And the end of an era with halfway West being removed.  Once the front awning was removed it really showed just how dilapidated it was.

Seen better days.

 

New concrete to be poured next Friday.