Back in play!

After a slow start to the week when some snow and ice-cover lingered in places, the playability and presentation of the courses has steadily improved every day.

After starting the week playing off the front of the tees to target-pins set-up at the top of the fairway, the bouncebackability of the courses was evidenced by two courses fully in play by mid-morning on Tuesday.

Machinery ventured out onto the courses from Thursday and now all the main golf playing surfaces are prepared and presented in good order in-time for the weekend.

Whilst there are a few turf-disorders on show to the trained eye, all the surfaces have come out of the snow and ice-cover in very good condition and there is no evidence of any turf diseases flaring up notwithstanding that we remained damp from the melting ice and quickly moved to much milder temperatures.