Yesterday was chilly but today is flat-out rough. There are big grey clouds loitering to the south and west and rain's been falling for the last half hour.
If this were cricket, the umpires would have an easy decision to make.
But golfers are a bit hardier. Apparently they don't like to leave the course unless there has been so much rain the greens are unplayable.
The forecast seems to be for some rough stuff today and tomorrow but generally fine for the four days of the tournament. Fingers crossed.
There have been dozens of players filing past the clubhouse this morning.
Some look suitably unimpressed at the weather but most seem pretty happy.
Sightings have included Steve Alker, the personable Kiwi who won the PGA last week, and Dunedin's Mahal Pearce, who won the Open in 2003.
No Danny Lee, though no doubt the player everybody wants to see will be here for a hit at some stage.
There was a brief glimpse of the man who has made all this possible, course owner and uberjeweller Michael Hill, who was out the front of the amazing clubhouse chatting to some folk.
It's still early days. There's plenty of hustle and bustle around the course, and golfers and official-looking men walking around, but you definitely get the sense this is the phoney war.
Joe Chemycz, the media official here from the Nationwide Tour, has distributed the tour guide, a thick 300-page effort with four million player profiles, eight billion photos and six kajillion pages of statistics.
I've had a quick flick through and was delighted to find a golfer called Tee McCabe. Brilliant.
We had our first night in the ODT house last night and enjoyed a meal at the New Orleans. Roast of the day for the other three, beef and Guinness pie for me.
This morning I got up early and cooked bacon and eggs for everybody.
Now that's what you call team spirit.
