As I mentioned last week the warmer weather was just what we needed leading into winter and I must say we have an excellent cover of grass across the courses now.  It almost felt like a winter blast this week with cold southerly winds accompanied by frequent cloud bursts.  We received 20mm on course overnight into Friday and dare I say we needed it.  It was certainly a week for rainbows with the scattered showers and blasts of sun.

A pot of gold awaits @ 16W green??

 

The front bunker on 8W was re-drained this week which is part of an ongoing program we are conducting on both courses.  There was a layer of fairly impervious clay just above the existing drainage pipe so not much water had ever found its way down to it.  We also filled some of the "melon" holes on 13W fairway and heavily topdressed the area.

The rain forecast for the next few days isn't good for some of the work planned next week which includes adding some sand to selected River bunkers.  Obviously moving sand around needs dry firm conditions so hopefully the forecasters have got it wrong. 

It's hard to believe that 12 months ago we were still knee deep in TCAlfred recovery with stumps being ground out.  We finished up totaling 302 stumps from the cyclone but you would hardly know anything happened now.  The big winner has been some of the turf with the extra sunlight lapped up by the grass.

One of the biggest - RHS 2W tee.