New 15th green water feature
The past two months have seen the course receive well above average rainfall, which has led to the soil reaching field capacity and, as a consequence, the course becoming very wet and boggy. As previously mentioned, we had a relatively dry start to May, with the rainfall we received spread fairly evenly until we recorded 86mm for the last eight days of the month. This was then followed by a significantly wetter than average June (wettest since 1996), where to date we have recorded 200.5mm, 167mm of which has fallen in the last sixteen days.
This last sustained period of rainfall caused a large amount of washout damage and substantial flooding to the majority of the bunkers; the decision was made to temporarily declare all of the bunkers on the course GUR for fairness to play and to allow staff the necessary time to carry out essential repair work. Staff have spent a total of @60 hours over the past week to return the bunkers to a playable condition
13th fairway bunker
On a positive note, all of the drains throughout the course are now flowing steadily, with the masterlines discharging into the smaller 15th dam, which is now full and overflowing into the main 15th dam. The level of the main dam has risen dramatically over the last two weeks and I anticipate that it will be full before too much longer.
View form the clubhouse roof on Wednesday (note the blue sky!)
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