Storm, what storm?

I think we were very lucky in the end to miss the worst of the rain and the strong winds from the storm that passed over the uk on Sunday night and Monday morning. We had no damage to trees and only had around 10mm of rain in the 24 hour period. All that was left in its wake is leaves........everywhere. Nothing a couple days of tornado blowing on the back of the tractor wont sort out.

The 1st hole after Rob had carried out leaf clearance.

On Monday although there was less rain than expected it fell heavy at times causing water logging on a few of the greens and making the course unplayable for 3 hours. The team did a sterling job to reopen for 12 and the afternoon was fantastic, if anyone fancied a game. Today, helped with a drying wind there were no signs of the wet weather. The vertidraining of fairways has helped get the water off the surface, and the newly installed drains are working effectively. Vertidraining is continuing on fairways 1-9 this week. Leaf clearance is on going and the bunkers are being blown out and thoroughly raked to stir up the compact sand. next week we will begin our routine closure of 9 holes, starting with holes 1-9 on Tues, Wed and Thurs.