18th drainage continued

With the greens still covered in ice and the forecast for more freezing conditions and snow flurries we have had to resort to putting some of the flags on the fairway in front of the green to get play restarted. Tomorrow when open, there will be roughly 12 greens that are effected by ice. The ice has caused issues as the greens are frozen down to about an inch and any water on the surface can not drain away, even with good daytime temperatures the ice is simply thawing and then refreezing on a night. Over the next couple of days the ice will hopefully reduce enough to reopen the effected greens, currently they are too dangerous for golfers to walk on. Ice is also effecting other areas of the course, especially where the water was stood from the floods we had last week, The water pump is still running throughout the day to drain any excess water from areas of the course.

The driving range

We continued with the drainage on the 18th today, filling in the trenches from yesterday and starting new drainage trenches today.