How's your course bearing up in this exceptionally wet weather?

We were warned the course could close after today and it has. Why they didn't close it yesterday is beyond me. Been carry only and mats for a while but everywhere around is sodden - never seen the fields around us so bad. I've barely played in the past couple of months and no desire to go slosh around in the mud. Not had a lesson or practiced either and enthusiasm at an all-time low for the game. Hopefully when winter is over I'll feel differently, but never been like this since I started playing.
 
AmandaJR said:
We were warned the course could close after today and it has. Why they didn't close it yesterday is beyond me. Been carry only and mats for a while but everywhere around is sodden - never seen the fields around us so bad. I've barely played in the past couple of months and no desire to go slosh around in the mud. Not had a lesson or practiced either and enthusiasm at an all-time low for the game. Hopefully when winter is over I'll feel differently, but never been like this since I started playing.
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In the same mood. Seriously vlooking at the value of membership at the moment
 
Pyrford has been closed the past three days. Most local courses round here are the same except the idiotic "we'll take money from anyone" places that are just getting wrecked. One near here is still allowing motorised trolleys with no restrictions. One of their fairways is nothing but a mudbath now. You unfortunately have to accept at being at the mercy of the weather.
 
Only 13 holes open today as 14 takes us out to what is always the wettest part of the course - the area that suffers from serious run-off from neighbouring fields that we can do nothing about.
 
Yes, these current closures very much beyond the control of all sensible courses / clubs. No point destroying our greatest assets just to keep the tills ringing.

Very frustrating though. I blame that Michael Fish.
 
Two and half days of near solid rain and the Head green keeper finally had to give in to it today. Course closed.

Glad I got to play on Monday as we only just got in before it started and there has been a buggy ban ever since.
 
One of greens has been out of commission for months. The farmer in the nearby field change his direction of ploughing and it now floods regularly, including a load of mud, due to the direction of water flow.
 
Predictably shut after last night. Some really heavy rain no surprise the course couldn't cope given the previous rainfall. optimistic inspection tomorrow at 7.00am but at the very best it'll be front 9 carry only and with cold weather and frost due over the weekend I could see an argument for keeping it shut all weekend and giving it time to recover completely without opening parts of it to keep members happy and then listen them them moan in the spring when winter damage takes time to repair
 
holes 1-10 open and 18, 6 of which on temporary greens. Still managed to get 9 in this morning and shoot 4 over par.
 
Kennysarmy said:
Closed today and already made the call to close tomorrow. That will be closed 6 days out of the last 7 :(
Members are cancelling their membership I've heard.
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Where I play there would little point in cancelling membership during the year as we do not give partial refunds.
 
One is shut and a bog, other is open on mats but majority of proper greens.

I have no interest in playing when its like this. I haven't played now since September and having severe withdrawals. Genuinely considering a home simulator at this point as even the practice facilties are now a pond.
 
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