The weather has continued to be horrendously wet with it being the wettest summer in 100 years. We've managed to get good surfaces 99% of the time but last week was to much. The course flooded 3 out of the last 7 days it made maintenance impossible. We had very limited cutting during the week and we weren't able to touch the greens at all at the weekend because they where just so soft. The course can deal with a lot of rain but with the summer we've had it's just not been able to drain away. We need to carry on our top dressing and using the graden machine to ensure that we keep removing and diluting the thatch content. This will aid in firming the surfaces up and help water pass through them. The graden work we did a few weeks ago has generally healed over nicely with only faint lines remaining.
On a positive note the forecast is good this week and already the surfaces are returning to normal. With the course being so wet it takes a couple of days to firm up again.
We've fed the greens with a marathon 5-0-27, this will give the plant some strength going into the back end of the season.
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