Though it stopped raining briefly yesterday it was not enough to save sport for children. Most junior sports events had been cancelled for today.
Other football and rugby games for senior players have been moved off water-logged grounds.
Dunedin City Council sport fields facilities officer Harold Driver said it had been a very wet couple of weeks and he hoped the worst of the weather was over.
Considering how much rain had fallen, the grounds had stood up well. With four rugby clubs having 125th celebrations next weekend, it was vital those clubs' home grounds remained in good playing order.
He said children might not do a lot of damage to the ground, but they found playing in the conditions unpleasant.
The wet weather has turned much of the Island Park golf course in Waldronville into a lake. Club president Greg Stewart said it was the worst he had seen for more than 20 years.
The course had been closed since May 9, and was not improving. Many of the fairways were under water, while the bunkers were also full of water.
He hoped to have the course open next Tuesday. He said there had just been too much rain for the course to cope, and run-off from a new housing development was not helping.
The Taieri Golf Club is closed for the weekend, as is St Clair Golf Club, but the Otago Golf Club was scheduled to be open today, along with Chisholm Park.
• The Otago Sports Car Club's grass Nichols Rd Autocross to be held tomorrow near Momona, has been postponed because the paddock is too wet to race in.
An alternative date has not yet been set.
The club's Cape Saunders gravel hillclimb, on the Otago Peninsula, is still set to go ahead next Sunday.
