The 12W fairway project dominated the week with a successful completion of the earthworks stage of the project today.  A lot of planning has gone into the works and getting the irrigation installed today capped off what has been a significant amount of scheduling.  On excavating the bunkers we found virtually no drainage in them and what was there was obviously not functional.  The turf arrives on Monday so hopefully we can get it down before the forecast rain arrives.  Due to the works covering the entire width of the fairway the hole will remain closed to play until the turf has started to establish and can withstand some cart traffic.

As Bill Lawry would say ''it's all happening on 12W.''

We have been fighting the Crowsfoot across all areas of the courses as has every course in SE Qld / N Rivers and one of the products has failed miserably.  It looks like we might be getting some resistant plants as where it was sprayed on 9W fairway has had a great result but barely a stones throw away on 4R fairway it has barely touched it.  The advantage of this product is the lack of leaf burn and therefore dis-colouration that you get but enough is enough and we went out today with a stronger brew that will see some leaf burn in the coming days.

February 28 is a day that is etched in my mind when the biggest flood to ever hit the course came to town in 2022.  In many ways it seems way more than three years and yet I doubt I will ever forget some of the scenes that confronted us in the ensuing days.  A bit of a pictorial reminder below.

Entry Road.

Short range.

Pushing sludge off short range the next day.

7R green arrowed left and pot bunker 6R on right.

1R green.  Flagstick still standing!!

Tif PPG high tide mark.

Rear bunker 1R.

 

Our ''body surfers''

It's hard to imagine the trauma the cows went through on their ride down from the other side of Murwillumbah.  It was a bit of a light moment when we were discussing how we were going to round them up as they were pretty traumatised.  The young girl with the farmers suggested she bring her horses in to which I replied ''Yeah...Nah.''!!