Saturday, April 14, 2018

Course update

     It has been a month since my last post.  I better get you all caught up on what has been happening on the golf course.  The weather has been the biggest set back for me and my staff.  Lots of rain and cool temperatures in March that carried into April.  We have seen 7 inch of rain since the first of March.  Despite the weather we did get some project completed.  The biggest project completed was our green aerification.
   We deep drilled 3/4'' holes 10'' deep on a 5''x5'' spacing. 
 We then came back over with our Pro Core and punch a 3/8'' holes on 2'' centers.

     The next big project we got done was some much need Irrigation on the forward tee on # 13.  That tee was built many years ago without irrigation.  We have had a hard time keeping good turf on the tee during drought years.  Now we will be able to grow some very good Zoysia on this tee.  The tee still needs some sod work done to it.  So please be careful stay out of the mud enter the tee from the rear.  We will sod it next week when it dries down.
 Trenching in new control wires for 13 tee
Tim finishing up wiring new heads up.


     Last winter we were going through the bunker renovation and we had a few issues with our Irrigation on hole # 6.  The construction company hit our irrigation system in 3 different places in front of # 6 green.  They tore up pipe and control wires that control individual sprinkler heads.  We were in charge of putting everything back together so we thought.  It was winter when we made the repairs so we had no way to check our work.  When we turned the irrigation system on we found out that 2 stations worked partially and 2 other stations did not work at all.  It took some time but we figured out what was wrong.  We did not get 1 control wire hook back up correctly.  We had to do a little trenching in front of 6 green in 2 place and reconnect the wires. Now everything is back to normal all stations working correctly.  I have the areas marked as ground under repair.  Please do not walk or drive inside of the white paint.  With the rain we received you could sink or mess up the sod.

 We trenched new control wire
 New wire installed and covered up
Sod relayed back over trench.

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