Seemingly back to rain being the hot topic and the rain earlier in the week, whilst not massive, certainly caused some headaches.  The planned earthworks on 14 and 16W fairways had to be cancelled and will now probably not be re-scheduled until later in the year at best.  Coordinating machinery, turf, contractors and course availability is a major juggling act at best.  The sand that has been stockpiled at 16W car park will have to stay there until we can confirm another date.  There wasn't much rain as I said (for us anyway - 70mm on Monday and Tuesday) but I couldn't believe how wet the courses were and they stayed wet all week.  Even some of the normally dry fairways had water pooled on them late Tuesday after the rain.  Another 30mm on Friday afternoon hasn't been helpful either.

We were also hoping to get a mini renovation done on the West greens during the course closure on Monday and Tuesday but sadly that was washed away too.  The temperatures are starting to drop slightly and it's now too risky to be doing too much renovation type work to the greens in case they can't grow out of it. 

Water pooled on 2R fairway - most unusual.

The fuel situation Australia is currently experiencing is certainly a concern for us.  Most of our larger mowers operate on diesel with most greensmowers and hand implements using ULP.  To give an idea of what we use; 

• a greensmower uses about 6L per mow ( 4 go out most days),
• a tees mower 10L per cut,  
• a fairway mower 30L a day,
• a rough cutter 25L a day,
• the surrounds mowers 50L a day,
• fairway blowers 40L a day,
• plus hand tools, Gators, snippers, backpack blowers and so on…. 

Our supplier advised last week we may not get any ULP and diesel would be if and when possible.  So it was a very pleasant sight to see the fuel truck in the compound with both types of fuel on board earlier this week.

Most welcome!!

 

And I don't think any more rakes in bunkers will make any difference out there.  This was 9W greenside last Saturday morning where about 20 shots had been played and they deftly avoided stepping on any of the rakes that had been tossed together.

Please leave the bunker how you would like to find it yourself???