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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

#14 fairway project...............









I could not take it anymore and decided I had to repair the uneven areas on #14 fairway that hold water way too long after even small rains. The areas hold water for so long ducks were starting to gather. Still on the late summer project list are repairs to a couple of collar areas, some more fairway interseeding, a number of stump holes to either seed or sod, and a couple of very small green surrounds to sod. I had to squeeze #14 in somewhere and this was the week.


October is reserved for adding sub surface drainage and re grading #8 fairway.


The lay of the land didnt leave a lot of options as far as subsurface drainage is concerned so basically we raised the area by about 3 inches and graded the section smooth with the surrounding fairway. On Friday we will be laying the sod.


This was a trial run for a couple of other areas that give us trouble coming out of spring and #14 has plenty of depressions and poorly drained areas that should be addressed, but this section is a nice start and fits our sod budget.















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