The Gardeners' World Blog

So I was telling you that I had been told there was no chance of a hurricane in Louisville... well that was my first mistake.

We were delayed in Chicago en route to Kentucky for 18 hours as the effects of Hurricane Ike swept up the States and, as you probably know, there was some damage to the course as a result. The media centre threatened to take off in the direction of Indiana, the place was closed and our efforts to get things ready were delayed by 24 hours. This was bad on so many levels!

But thanks to the sterling efforts of our engineering team we seem to be back on track with just a couple of hours to go till it all gets under way (touching all available wood).

We were still testing things up until Thursday evening; making sure our microphones worked at all four corners of the course, listening through to 24 press conferences and interviews with all the players and wondering what on earth Nick Faldo had been talking about!