Not much to report on the courses this week apart from some most welcome sunshine and hopefully it stays this way.  The heavy dews in the mornings are like getting a couple of mm of rain so although we haven't recorded rainfall there are still many wet areas out there.  With the Fanning golf day on next Friday we certainly don't want any more significant rain so that all the fun of the day can go ahead unhindered.

The irrigation installation moved along to 6R this week and despite the horrendous weather the contractors have encountered so far they are not too far behind.  One of the jobs they performed this week was to give us a temporary connection from our old system to supply the new areas.  Rather than digging a 100 metre trench the pipe was laid above ground around the dam to the LHS of 10W and when it is no longer required it can be removed and used elsewhere in the new system.  

It was certainly a bit weird this week to have to think about applying some irrigation water to the courses.  We have been itching to try some of the new system and this week gave us just a little window and to say it's first class is an understatement.  We are now at the nine hole stage and it has been nice to hear a lot of comments about the lack of interference to golf.  One of the peculiarities of Cool Tweed is the way the ground can move / settle after excavation.  This has been happening to a lot of our turfed areas and they will be attended to in due course.  Some of the sprinklers have also settled a little unevenly and once again will be attended to.  The turfed areas will really not show good signs of recovery until the weather warms later in the year.