Yesterday we had another 35mm of rain, fortunately in the afternoon it stopped, the wind got up and the sun came out. In the morning given the bad conditions we caught up on a few inside jobs, all the machines were serviced, blades sharpened and the shed tidied up. We fitted our two small trailers with new metal bottoms, replacing the old wood that had gone rotten.

We also had the ball collector into the shed to replace some of the broken discs

In the afternoon we went out onto the course to push the water off the greens and to aid water on the fairways into some of the drains. With the conditions good we did everything possible to help the course open for today.

Amazingly the course was dry enough to be opened this morning and with the forecast good for the day the remainder of the standing water went fairly quickly. Today we caught up a little with cutting of greens, fairways, tees, semi, surrounds and intermediate rough. We also moved the putting green holes and installed some open drains at points where the water is slow to drain away around greens and tees.