As part of the Club's centenary we have purchased some commemorative pin flags that will be in use from Wednesday April 15.  

So the colour coded pin placement system will be on hold while these flags are in use. 

I mentioned last week that we are mostly about preparing the turf for winter at the moment and a superb week of weather has certainly helped move that along.  The tees and fairways have an excellent cover of grass and have had a surge of growth this week which is exactly what we want.  We actually probably had too much grass on the tees ...

And still it rains!!  We just can't seem to get a break and although there hasn't been big totals this past week the persistent showers are more than annoying.  We have got quite a lot of disease pressure across the courses, particularly in the greens with the constant leaf wetness providing the perfect situation for disease to flourish,...

250mm or 10 inches of rain thus far in March is the story of the week.  There is water still standing in places on the courses that I haven't seen before and despite 2 warm sunny windy days, it persists.  The fairways were that wet this week that we decided to not mow them which only really happens the day it stops raining.  March i...

I thought I heard a little rain overnight and when I checked and saw that the airport had 7mm on its site I thought all was good.  Got to work and saw water pooled at the back of the shed which indicated more than 7mm and found 35mm in the rain gauge and then toured the course to find it incredibly wet.  Got back to the shed and checked ...