Christmas Snow Update

Hole 9 looking towards the green

On Tuesday the 19th of December we experienced a heavy snow fall. On course we had almost 6inchs of snow and with wide spread power outages in the West Shore area Olympic View closed it's doors for the day.

Since Tuesday we have experienced freezing temperatures that have allowed for little thaw. Last night (Thursday 21st) temperatures rose slightly and some rain did fall. This allowed for some thaw on hard surfaces around the clubhouse and on course cart paths but made very little difference to conditions on course with thick snow covering the vast majority of it.

Hole 8 from the Blacks

Hole 13 

It appears that we have been quite lucky as far as damage with only a couple of small trees being brought down by the weight of the initial snow fall.

The thaw and freeze cycle that we have been experiencing has led to treacherous conditions all over the course with large areas of sheet ice and slippery banking's. We would like to urge our members and guests to resist the urge to walk on to the course during this time. We are conducting daily course checks but for the most part we are not around to assist if an accident were to occur.

Hole 6

Looking forward, the weather forecast has changed over the last couple of days with slightly warmer that previously predicted conditions over the Christmas period. A mix of rain and snow will continue over the next few days and the amount of either will largely govern the re-opening of golf course. Although slightly warmer temperatures are now in the forecast, they are still only just reaching above freezing which means the complete thaw of the course will be a slow process.

As always we will be checking conditions daily and the Golf Shop will be open to take calls. I plan to prepare another update after Christmas day which I will post on our Blog page

From Brett, Myself, Sydney and the rest of the grounds crew we hope you all have a splendid festive few days and we hope to see you back on course in the not to distant future.

Merry Christmas and we hope you have a Happy New Year

Sydney enjoying the snow