Like the rest of the Island, Andrew Brooks was breathing a huge sigh of relief yesterday morning.

With little more than a month to go before the Grand Slam, a direct hit from Hurricane Igor could have caused havoc at Port Royal Golf Course.

Thankfully for the Director of Golf, the storm did little actual damage to the Southampton course and the clean-up that is required is mostly cosmetic.

"The golf course is relatively unscathed, just a few trees, branches of trees, just lots of debris to clear up," said Brooks. "It's effectively a five or six hour clear-up operation in the morning, and the golf course will be open for business at lunch time on Tuesday.

"We were very worried about losing windows in the club house, getting exterior damage, especially with the Grand Slam just around the corner. With 30 days to go we could have been in a situation whereby we wouldn't have been able to get things done.

"From going up and seeing the course, and with the slight damage, we know that there aren't going to be any issues, which is very good news."

There are some concerns over the effects of possible salt burn, but these won't become apparent for the next 48 hours or so. Other than that, there was little to concern Brooks, and he thinks much of that has to do with the changes that were made to the course.

"I think that with all the trees that were taken down during the refurbishment, obviously that has given the back nine a lot more protection because there wasn't as much to come down," he said.

"There's no real cause for concern, there's no washout, the bunkers will need to be re-done, to get them back to where they would be, but there's no major damage at all."

Damage wise it was a similar story at the Island's other courses with Anthony Mocklow, the Director of Golf for Fairmont Southampton and Riddell's Bay Golf Club, saying the nine hole course at the Southampton Princess would also be open by this afternoon. "We lost two very small casuarina trees and we have already got guys out on the course cleaning up to get it ready for guests to play on as soon as possible," he said.