I sent the chart below around this morning and indeed it is a tale of woe.  For a Club that is so reliant on golf cart traffic that is a lot of cart restriction and less than usual player numbers which has a dramatic impact on income obviously.  We have had worse runs than March 16 - 30 in terms of consecutive days of rainfall but that's up there with the best of them.  We will probably nudge past a metre of rain YTD by Sunday night by the look of the forecast.  I have no doubt said it before but this is as wet as the courses can get.  It's not ideal when you are trying to get some growth happening going into winter as that much rain means lots of cloud cover and all the turf needs at the moment is bright sunny conditions.

 

A tale of woe!!

The rain isn't much good for the irrigation installation either with their machinery making lots of mess and having an impact on their ability to work.  We are now up to four lost days due to weather although they are still on track as far as the program is concerned.  There is still some work that they can do in the rain such as lifting low sprinklers and assembling fittings but that doesn't run to four days.  7W did get finished this week and we are off to 6W on Monday with hopefully some fine weather.

Not where the installation equipment should be on a Friday.

 

Installation of the new half way West starts next Monday and is due to run for two weeks.  The entire area will be fenced off and Members are asked not to enter the construction zone.  Two portable toilets will be available for players use.  There will also be some concrete path installation happening at 1W tee so buggy path diversions will be in place there as well.  As with the irrigation installation please follow the signage that will be in place and we apologise for the inconvenience but the finished product is what we are after. 

And spare a thought for Bonville GC as they host the Australian Womens Classic this week.  It has been held at Bonville on five occasions and I don't think they have ever had a dry one with this years event already shortened to a 36 hole event after play was abandoned this morning.