THE reawakening of Coomealla Golf Club from the flood had been a long and trying journey, the club’s golf manager, Warren Fitzgerald, said this week.

“We were shut from mid-November 2022 and we didn’t reopen till June 15, 2023,” he said.

“The rebuild was a massive process. When we could get back on the course, we had to dig out a foot of soil to remove the contaminated parts and get fr...