Water everywhere

This morning we had another dose of precipitation! 20mm to be exact. As you can imagine this year has been very frustrating for the green staff, we have spent alot of time clearing water from the course to keep play on despite the weather. Unfortunately this morning we were beaten and the course had to be closed for the day. There was alot of standing water across the course, on the fairways and semi in the usual spots and on the majority of the greens. The rain didn't stop until 10 am so we couldn't clear the greens until this afternoon. Below is what I had to face this morning when inspecting the course.

 9th green

 Front 18th green

 18th fairway

 18th fairway

 8th green

 10th fairway

 13th green

 15th green

27th green

As you can imagine drainage is the hot topic at the moment, and this has been the main priority for this years winter programme. We hope to drain a lot of the fairway and semi rough in the problem areas.

Its not all doom and gloom as where the course drains reasonably well its still looking fantastic. This afternoon we managed to cut a few of the fairways. We also divoted the tees, moved 19-27 holes, collected the range balls and cut the intermediate rough