I thought I heard a little rain overnight and when I checked and saw that the airport had 7mm on its site I thought all was good.  Got to work and saw water pooled at the back of the shed which indicated more than 7mm and found 35mm in the rain gauge and then toured the course to find it incredibly wet.  Got back to the shed and checked the weather station at the pump shed that has a rain catch can and it had recorded 45mm!!  Nowhere else had figures anywhere like it.  So if you came down from Tugun for a game (where only 2mm was recorded) that was why there were no carts allowed today.  The photo below shows the normally dry 14R fairway with water still lying on it this morning and the circled area shows how much water was lying on it when the rain was at its peak.

It takes a lot of rain for water to pool on 14R.

 

The huge player numbers we have been getting and the amount of wear evident on tees, particularly par 3's, has me a bit concerned for winter considering we are still in virtually peak growth time.  We have been constantly monitoring the tees for insect and disease and on Thursday got some granular fertiliser out on them in anticipation of the forecast rain.  They will probably get another couple of granular fertiliser applications in the coming weeks to boost them before winter.