Flooding on the course

It has not stopped raining for a few days and the course is really water logged and extensive flooding is starting to become an issue. There has been around 50mm of rain over 3 days. The green staff cant go on to the course with any vehicles due to the severe wet conditions. If the rain stops tomorrow we will push the water off the greens and see the extent of the damage, however i do not expect the course will be playable until AT LEAST the end of the week. It is very saddening to see the course in this state, however we can not stop nature, we only can react and do all we can to lessen the damage it causes. The drainage planned this winter hopefully will help us in the future to recover more quickly after such extreme weather.

This is the flooding on the driving range. We used our time today to start servicing all the machinery, Adam and Rob continued servicing the John Deere greens mowers which they started last week, then started taking the units off the Toro fairway mower. Will serviced the strimmers, I fixed the leaf collecting machine, Alistair Scott and Rich continued staining and painting tee markers, then started digging out the soak away down the side of our shed.