The course stayed closed today after the heavy rain we had yesterday. I inspected the course first thing, and although the majority of the land was saturated and wet under foot there were some positive signs from the work we had been doing with drainage on the greens and fairways. Firstly yesterday all the greens were under water after the 22mm of rain, the work lowering the surrounds and the drainage installed on the 6th and 12th had removed the puddles which would have been left.

The verti draining done over the last few days will have also helped generally remove water, helping it penetrate through the profile, I finished off the the remainder of the greens this afternoon, fortunately I had left the driest of the greens till last knowing the weather forecast.
Other areas which showed remarkable improvement after the rain were the 10th fairway and in front of the 18th green.

10th fairway yesterday

and then this morning

This small puddle was all that was left, in an area which had not had the drain reinstated

Other bits that we haven't done yet showed that the work we have done has made progress in to draining the course.



A wet area on the 10th hole near the road that crosses the fairway

Work continued on the drainage on 15th fairway that was started on Tuesday

Adam and Rob continued servicing, grinding and cleaning the John Deere greens mowers. Neville Maw continued with will cutting the hedges on the course with the flail. We use Neville every year to cut the hedges as he makes a fantastic job, unfortunately this year it has been wetter than usual, leaving a few prints from the cleated tyres on his tractor. These will be rolled out in the next couple of weeks.