Will it stop raining?

This week has seen very wet weather nearly every day, around 35mm in total has fallen over the space of 4 days. Yesterday the course was closed due to the sheer volume of water on the course. All the drainage we installed recently was at full capacity removing water from the course. With no rain for the start of today the course just needed time (and a little help from the greenstaff) and at 10 am the course reopened. When ground conditions allowed we continued cutting where possible to prepare the course for weekend play. Mark cut amongst the new copses at 7th and 9th.

Holes 21 - 24 are currently waterlogged so we have had to cut out a temporary green on the 24th fairway until conditions improve. Holes 21 - 24 are constantly under treat from flooding as they are situated next to the River Derwent which rises very quickly following prolonged rainfall. Fortunately it does fall as quick as it rises so we hope to get the holes back in play next week.

The greens dried fairly quickly so Scott put another application of Seaweed, iron sulphate and 15-0-0 fertiliser (N @ 2.5 kg/Ha) on the greens. We apply a mix like this to the greens every 3 weeks to keep them healthy, without overfeeding them which would encourage excess growth.

We also moved holes, cut tees, cut tee sides, flymo'd bank sides, fertilised bunker faces and poor tees and cut fairways

11th fairway