Driving Range Fence

     We have been busy this week  installing the new Driving Range fence. Our range is too small and balls are flying out of the range into the woods.  We are starting on the back of the range.  The fence runs from 4 rough all the way down to the wood line to the north side of range.  After this section is completed  we will continue down the north side of the range towards the tee.  We will try to keep the range open during this time but if it becomes unsafe for us we will close the range while we are working.  We are 1/3 of the way done on the back fence. This is a very time consuming job.  We have to run cable from the  top and bottom of the post.  The netting has to have a rope threaded through all 4 sides so we can tie it to the cable without tearing the netting.  It takes 3 people 4 hours to thread 400 feet of rope through the netting.  We then can stretch the netting from the top cable to the bottom and zip tie it to the cable.  It took 3 of us 2 hours to zip tie the netting to the cables and we are only 1/3 of the way done.  Like I said earlier this is a very time consuming job.  When we are done with the fence this will save the club many hours of labor looking for balls in the woods and the expense of lost balls.

Installing cable

 Threading the rope through the netting

 Installing the netting 

1/3 of the way done.  This will keep ball from being hit through the back of the range.