Thirty inches of rain since November 11.  Not a misprint!!  I doubt any other course could take that type of punishment and remain open.  It really is a credit to the people who built the courses and installed the drainage which works incredibly well on such a flat site.  Having such little fall makes the pipes run very slowly but they are very effective.

At the Board meeting on Tuesday night this week there was discussion around the forecast for Wednesday golf.  My contribution was that the biggest concern, although not technical in any way, was that the seagulls had been camped on the dam at 4 / 9 West and had been there all night.  They certainly did know something as that 80mm in 40 minutes just after lunch on Wednesday was almost literally out of this world.

The West course is taking forever to dry out in places and just when we think we can mow a fairway we get more rain on it.  The 80mm on Wednesday wasn't to big a problem as that volume of water just runs to the catch basins.  It's the smaller showers that are the ones that really keep us wet.

The constant rain means low sunlight hours which isn't conducive to good greens growing weather.  The River greens have really struggled which is a trait of 328 and even the West greens have got a bit ''puffy''.  Both sides got a de-thatch this week followed by a close mow which has resulted in a scalped look in areas on the greens. A good forecast of sunny weather looms so hopefully that occurs.

They didn't move for 48 hours.