This week we are tidying the remainder of the drainage work, there is a small area of drainage we did on the 18th which was finished off. When the weather improves we have to turf areas of dead turf on the fairways that has been stood under water. We began solid tining the fairways with the weidenmann machine. We are using 18mm tines down to a depth of 200mm, we are using a setting that gives a moderate amount of heave to relieve compaction and open up the surface to aid water movement. We began around the drainage on the 17th hole, since this area has been drained we have seen significant improvement. Solid tining will help link the natural soil drainage to the installed drains. We hopefully will have the bottom 3 holes on the derwent course open tomorrow, it is still wet in a few areas, however it will be playable. Hedge cutting with the hand trimmer continues on the 3rd hole.