Another pretty accurate forecast from the weather bureau this week although they did miss with the volume of rain.  142mm all up for the week with 135 of that falling in about nine hours on Wednesday night.  Safe to say it didn't help with our Club Champs preps.  But full credit once again to the crew with the way they turned the courses around on Friday with Thursday virtually being a write off.  The short week after the public holiday didn't help much either.  A day like Thursday with no play does give us a chance to do a couple of jobs that are difficult to do in play and that was to hang two new practice nets and edge the paths on the West course with the paths being about the only dry thing out there!!  Some machine prep for the upcoming River course greens renovation was also done which is a very time consuming job.

A couple of shots below to demonstrate the volume of water that was out on the courses.  The photo across 18W and R was at 6pm Wednesday after only 60mm so there was another 70 dumped on top after that.  The other photo is of 12W fairway.  The main drain that drains this fairway was completely covered with debris not allowing the water to move but again just shows the volume of water that was there.

Looking across 18W & R from the entry road.

12W fairway early Thursday morning.