AS alluded to last week, golf is unpredictable; so too the seasonal weather apparently.

We arrive in February with Parkland’s seasonal course resplendent with still verdant fairways, where one might expect the dry-blond swathe of previous years.

As a retired educationalist, it is hard to comprehend that kids are back at school and we are yet to experience a week of blistering, energy-sapping heat, and none on the immediate horizon.

Thursday evening and Friday morning’s unseasonal downpours put paid to Friday’s event and ensured that ] volunteer workers will be engaged in serious scrape renovation this week.

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