There will be no complaints from Bolton golfer Bob Longworth if the heavens decide to open at Forest Pines Golf Club for next week's PGA Super 60's Tournament.
Heavy rainfall hampered playing conditions on the second day at the course near Scunthorpe last year, prompting tournament organisers to bring the event forward by two months in a bid to avoid a repeat.
Longworth and partner Gerry Delaney were one of the teams to benefit from the weather on day two of the 36-hole competition, shooting a second successive 72 to climb the leaderboard and clinch joint-seventh alongside Harrogate's Bill Ferguson and John Robinson.
The 62-year-old said: "I loved it. I said to my pal this will suit us fine. As soon as I saw the weather I thought let's get stuck in - this is our opportunity to climb the leaderboard."
Longworth, who has also had a fifth-place finish in his other appearance in the tournament, admits victory will be top his agenda this time around.
"We really want to win it. When you have just hit 60 you have only got two, three, four years where you think 'we can win this'. We will give it our best shot, it will certainly be competitive," he added.
"It's just a nice tournament. It's a really good course, there's a good layout, it's tight, you have to keep it straight - it's a good test."
Played on a betterball basis, the Super 60's is competed for by teams of a pro and an amateur over 60 years of age.
Victory, however, appears less of a priority for Ferguson, who revealed he and Harrogate Golf Club president Robinson will be more than happy to improve on last year's finish.
"If we were to do better than we did last year then we would both be very pleased," he said. "He (Robinson) is my best friend so we get on very well. No matter what happens we know we will enjoy the day."
Ferguson, who lives in Ripon and represented Great Britain and Ireland twice in the PGA Cup - including the first competition at Hillside, Southport in 1975 - won this event in 2002 with a different amateur partner.
But the 67-year-old, who has been made both a PGA honorary member and master professional, admits he is just looking forward to the chance to meet up with former acquaintances.
He said: "I'm really looking forward to seeing my old friends. It will be nice if there were three or four of these events each year. I think it would be a good thing to have more. It certainly promotes the game in the right manner because it is played in the right spirit."
And the 1976 Club Professional champion admits it will be a real pleasure to play at Forest Pines again.
"It's an excellent course. It's all good fun for the players and the tournament is certainly played in the right spirit. It's a real pleasure to play there."
The 36-hole pro-am, featuring former Tour and Ryder Cup players, boasts a £10,000 prize fund and this will be the second year the North Lincolnshire club has staged the event, which begins on Wednesday August 22.
Champions Frank Hill and his amateur partner Brian Underwood from Thorpeness in East Anglia return to defend the title they won after a play-off last year.
PGA chief executive Sandy Jones said: "The Super 60's is always popular and gives many of our members the opportunity to renew old friendships but once they get on the course the competitive instincts are still fierce and it's always keenly contested right down to the wire."
The inaugural PGA Super 60's was staged in 1994 in response to the increasing popularity of senior's golf at professional and amateur level.