Another bad week of weather and quite luckily we narrowly avoided a flood when the river actually broke its bank at the low spot behind 1R green on both high tides on Tuesday.  Fortunately the river's catchment upstream missed some of the heavier rain (they still got 80mm) and that kept levels "under control".  The bunkers took an absolute pounding and have taken the rest of the week to get shoveled back into some normality and the fairways were too wet to mow for most of the week and in the end due to their length we had to mow through some unfavourable ground conditions.

One of a few bunkers a machine could help out in.

 

In the 81 days since the start of March we have had only 26 days where no rain was recorded and received 760mm or 30 inches in the old scale.  You have to go back to the double flood year of 2022 to match that same run of rain days. 9 inches of that rain has fallen in the past 8 days as well.

The weather has played havoc with our work programs with either rain or wind disrupting.  Our preventative spray programs on the greens have been the worst hit and we now have some disease present in some River course greens.  Following the solid tine of the greens a few weeks ago we are getting some wheel marking from the mowers which is normal and probably exacerbated by the wet soft conditions.  There is no disruption to the playing surface though. 

With no further rain overnight carts should be back on the West course for Saturday.  It is still extremely wet in places so please drive with care.