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

Been closed since Friday. Frost / frozen on top of very waterlogged ground is not a good combination. It's been a boring weekend, but the right decision.

We have an indoor sim, but it has chosen to be faulty and out of action this weekend. Timing. Great.
 
woo hoo - 18 holes open. One hole out of play as greens team are working on the new bunkers in the middle of the fairway - but we have a short 2a hole instead - playing maybe 100yds or so from a temporary tee to our practice chipping ground (it's fantastic condition - almost as good as our greens). Fingers crossed for the weekend that it stays dry - and we'll have all holes in play.
 
Played 18 holes yesterday and the course was surprisingly dry underfoot. Course does drain well anyway due to it being a sand based track but considering the weather we've had it was pleasantly surprising how well it had coped.
 
Played tuesday in the frost and played today with no frost
Tuesday was ok, quite furnish underfoot (obviously) but you could tell that once the frost went it was going to be wet
Today was, as suspected, wet.
We had a day of mist and light drizzle yesterday, not enough to top up water levels. Other than that no rain for a week
We still have puddles of mud around tees, squelchy areas in the rough and most fairways and very very soft greens.
One green still has a puddle on it
I carried a 3/4 set both days.
I mentioned to one of the greenkeepers that, if it was my course, there wouldn't be any trolleys out there, it would be carry only
He agreed but said if they banned trolleys there would hardly be a car in the car park.
I saw approximately 30 other members playing and they all had trolleys.
The course is suffering badly. Churned up areas that will take months to recover. Greens in play when they really shouldn't be.
They're not doing themselves any favours.
 
It has been damp and wet every day again this week and so I cannot see any change at my course. Still the composite course of 18 holes from the 27 available, still some of mats, some off proper temp greens and some with the green on the fairway. Still issues with queuing for an hour on the first tee. Cannot see me going up there again until the full course opens and I suspect that will be several weeks.
 
Played London Scottish/Wimbledon Common on Sunday. You wouldn't have believed we'd had a drop of rain. Course was impeccable, not a single patch of mud. The greens were lovely once the sun came out, they were a bit frosty and bobbly until then. It was so much of a pleasure to play i'm thinking of becoming a member since I parted with my old club in December.
 
Course in very good nick for January. Good turn out for the Seniors QR, scoring excellent, CSS went to -1, and I buffered.
 
Looking at this weekend's forecast is a bit depressing. We still have 2 holes out of play and many of the others are pretty unpleasant. If we get a lot of rain, I reckon we'll be looking at the end of Feb before it's playable in any sense of the word.
The start of this thread was mid December, and given my comments then, I reckon we will have had 3 months of no proper golf by then. Not what you expect in the South east, it must be tough to run the club at the moment.
 
pendodave said:
Looking at this weekend's forecast is a bit depressing. We still have 2 holes out of play and many of the others are pretty unpleasant. If we get a lot of rain, I reckon we'll be looking at the end of Feb before it's playable in any sense of the word.
The start of this thread was mid December, and given my comments then, I reckon we will have had 3 months of no proper golf by then. Not what you expect in the South east, it must be tough to run the club at the moment.
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Yes - same here. It's been truly dire. I've got a 90-min course lesson tomorrow, which I should get in before the rain and the wind arrives, but after that, the course will be closed for ages I'm guessin. As I said in my newbie intro post, I reckon my course has been closed for well over half of the weekends for the last 2-3 months. I just managed to get 3 cards in between November and end of Jan.

My parents live in Majorca: I might just ditch the Mrs and the McTootlets and head over there with my clubs and hang out with them for a month or so...
 
We are getting there. Only has a few days closed and a couple of Saturdays when we've been down to 13 holes (with flooding on one hole out on the perimeter being the main problem). We are fortunate,
 
Just had a walk over Turnberry, it's in fabulous condition.
I also love the ragged bunkers and other changes inc the putting green.
Say what you like against Trump, he has done a great job at the courses of Turnberry and Trump Aberdeen.
 
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