Some more ordinary weather early in the week with golf affected once again.  Monday in particular was a dirty day with squally showers and a strong southerly blowing all day.  There were no carts on either course and the comp on the River course only had forty odd players.  There was a schools challenge event on the West course with a range of abilities but one of the young guns shot 70 off the blue tees in the abysmal weather which is an extraordinary score.  The weather picked up for the end of the week and Anzac Day was a ripper and Friday not too bad.  Fortunately the 50mm of rain that Byron Bay received today stayed just out to sea as it moved north and all but missed us which was good given there were more than 500 players registered to play today!!

The irrigation installation continued with 4R fairway nearly completed.  It's a deceptively large fairway and the short week cost the contractors some time but all in all a good progressive week.  The past eight weeks have flown by (in someways) and you would hardly know anything had happened on 9W apart from the scars from the mainline installation down the LHS of the hole.  Recovery will obviously slow with the onset of the cooler weather but the cooler weather assists with the necessary shutdown of holes.  For example due to the old / new pipe routing neither 4 or 5R greens are ''live'' this weekend which isn't an issue with no heat stress present.