For the golfers of the estate, there's nothing more obvious, than the fact that the golf course is in desparate need of some drainage.
Editor's Note: It doesn't take much rain to render the golf course out of action. But when there is substantail rain it becomes blatantly obvious, that some drainage is needed to remove the excess water more quickly, to allow the course to recover in a reasonable time frame.
When the operator assured us, that when his construction work was finished, we'd have a better golf course, we're unsure if that's the case. The players can make that decision.
What we are sure of, is that the thousands of tons of soil and rock dumped on the existing golf course have been compacted so tightly that water from rain, even light rain, struggles to drain from the course.
Combined with the fact, that some parts of the course are continually wet, as in the approach to holes 2 and 3, simply because the water cannot get away and the ground staff on many occasions continue to use the inground watering in those areas, which certainly does nothing to aid in the recovery process of those areas.
Hole 7
Any decent or prolonged rain sees the water run down the dirt road above hole 7 and then onto the Hole 7 green, carrying with it, dirt and stones, that many times involves a clean up of the green and its surrounds.
Surely, a better drainage system than this can be achieved.
As the operator has left the road above the green sloping towards the 7th Green, and is the lowest point of the road, the water finds a way towards the creek and unfortunately across the 7th green is obviously a path the water chooses to take.
Again, some suitable drainage is needed, with some heavy machinery, to divert the flow of water from the low point of the road to the creek, without going across the 7th green.
