A pretty frustrating week just gone by with the weather playing havoc with all of our operations.  The rain just wouldn't leave us alone to dry out and Wednesday nights 27mm was not what we needed.  And quite annoyingly there were only three locations in the Northern Rivers that received more than a few mm on Wednesday night and that was the three green dots in the circle below.  Chinderah, which is just across the River, Banora Point, which is at the sewerage treatment plant where we get our irrigation water from near Bunnings, and US.  Just over 200mm in seven days.  Frustrating.

Frustrating to say the least.

 

Another 27mm rainfall event happened last Saturday night into Sunday and had carts off both courses on Sunday.  We were still really wet Monday morning but had the Gold Coast District Super Senior Classic on the West as a shotgun.  Carts shouldn't have really been out there but I thought they might respect being allowed....but how wrong I was.  These shots below are from two groups in a row on 16W with the signs pretty plain to see right next to the tee markers.  Frustrating.

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To allow us a chance to get some work done and prepare for the Club Champs, the Board approved the closure of the course from 1pm the Friday before, which is what happened today.  The amount of work we can get done unhindered is amazing to say the least and one of our goals is to get most of the front nine bunkers raked to save time on Saturday morning.  Only three groups in the Friday members comp would have played the RHS bunker on 4W after it was raked this afternoon, and this is what we got.  Frustrating. 

Picked the rake up but didn't know how to use it?

Another fairly major step in the irrigation installation was the assembly of the pump set and control panel this week.  It's no easy task moving such heavy precision instruments around and the contractors did a great job.  Now for some power supply and pipework and we will be pumping.  Not frustrating.

Ducks in a row.

The control panel.