Finally a seven day forecast with no rain predicted after another frustrating week of rain and interruption to golf.  At least the courses have dried out a little faster than they did in May but that was after the constant rain for five months.  Year to date we have had 1498mm, and that includes just 15mm in June, which compares to the 2023 twelve month total of 1314mm.  So yes it's been wet.

The wetness has been ideal for weed growth and detrimental for us to get them sprayed.  We have been able to get some of the Poa in the greens sprayed and it is a very slow acting product that was used and we are currently at week two since application and some slight yellowing is just starting which is most encouraging.

The irrigation install continues and 8R was completed this week and we have moved on to 2R.  One of the bonuses of the install is that the mainline is laid in a trench down the side of the fairway that is dug 800mm deep and 450mm wide which gives us a very nice root prune along the fairway edges.  As can be seen from the photo below the vast majority of the roots are in the top 150mm so the benefit to the fairways will be enormous.  We will still probably get our own root pruning machine out this year as well to complement the great work done by the install. 

A lot of thirsty roots cut off.