An updated ''tale of woe'' in the table below with our YTD rainfall figures and days of cart restrictions.  The actual volume of rainfall recently isn't so much the problem but it's the regularity of it.  I don't believe I have seen the courses stay this wet for this long, even after the floods they dried very quickly and carts were back on.  One of the issues we face at the moment is the low growth environment and the damage being caused even by pull buggies.  I recall a couple of years ago that Maroochy River GC on the Sunshine Coast actually banned pull carts due to the damage they were causing and right at the moment we aren't far behind that as per a couple of photos below.  Both 1 and 9R are the biggest issue with nowhere to send carts or walkers around the wet areas which stretch right across the fairways.

 

Damage from walkers across 9R fairway.

Probably worse damage across 1R fairway.

The vast majority of the property is too wet to get mowers on and hopefully that situation changes quickly as some of the fairways are as long as I have seen them, particularly 13W.

The irrigation installation continued despite the weather and at least they were working on one of the drier fairways @ 5R, although Thursday was nearly a ''lay day'' with no machinery able to get on to the fairway and that meant that 5R green didn't get done this week.  On Monday next week we are hosting the trainees Pro am and they need to play 18 full holes on a dry course so they will be playing the River course.  The irrigation install will move to 4W for the day and then back to 5R on Tuesday to complete the green.