Just a few small piles of tree debris left out on the courses after a huge effort by staff, volunteers and contractors. We have had storms of this size before but when you have three in a week and two of them as severe as they were it becomes extraordinary.  Hopefully we are now past the worst of them although some of the long range forecasts are not good with respect to potential rainfall over the next three months.  At the moment I am actually back to planning some greenkeeping tasks next week rather than having half the crew dedicated to storm clean up.  I don't like to individualise, but the bunker restoration crew deserve the biggest pat on the back.  As I mentioned two weeks ago, we had just restored them and then bang it all happened again.  Shovelling sand in mid 30 degrees heat in a bunker where it is probably 10 degrees hotter is not the most pleasant task but they got it done and all bunkers are now back in play.

I put a photo up last week of the huge tree that came down on 14R and as I said the photo doesn't do it justice. I forgot I took the photo below of my cart next to it which really demonstrates the size of it.

One of the biggest to ever come down on course.

A worrying week with power issues affecting our old existing on course irrigation controllers with three still not operational but we have got all greens operating which is most important.  The new system install continues with some of the mainline pipework laid this week close to the pump shed which isn't far from coming on line now which will make a huge difference to water distribution. 

18W fairway has settled in well and will receive a heavy sanding next week to assist with levelling the surface out.  Work on 12W fairway in its wet area has been planned and we are now waiting for a suitable time when the irrigation install, earthmovers and turf layers all come together for the job but at this stage it looks like the job will be completed and turf down by mid March.