We have finally come to the end of the drainage work on the 18th hole, we have installed around 350 meters at various points on the hole and covered all the wettest areas. Most of the turf was usable and was re laid back on the drain lines. The turf that was poor or dead will be replaced at the start of the new year. When we get some drier weather we will roll all the drain lines with the heavy roller. After the rain we had on Friday and Saturday they certainly had worked and the rain water had gone by the next morning.

The lads installing the final pipework yesterday.

With all the drainage we can do this side of Christmas done, we concentrated on a few other tasks on the course, the greens were hand cut, except the 21st and 24th due to flooding.

Following this I sprayed the greens with fungicide that have not been treated from a couple of weeks ago. This should prevent disease for the next month of so, weather dependant. I also sprayed all the greens with iron to aid colour and again to prevent disease occurring. The greens were rolled to help firm up the surface after the frost heave they suffered, from the cold nights last week.

The water level has finally dropped on holes 21-24 so the flood water is slowly running away off the course. There is still alot of flooding but has dropped significantly from last week.

We assessed the damage the water has caused, although it has been flooded for some time there doesn't seem to be too many problems except discolouration, debris and silt deposits. These holes wont be open for some time.

Leaves are back on the priority list now we have some time, we couldn't get all of them cleared up before we had the recent rainfall, so there are still a lot of leaves about which are not only unsightly but can cause damage to the turf. Alistair spent most of today blowing leaves from around greens so the turf is not effected. Tomorrow we will try to remove the worst of them with the tornado blower and from out of the 5th/6th copse by hand. The ditches on the 9th are being cleared out and all the debris taken away.