#8 drainage

Today we trenched our drain lines, put in the drain tile with pea gravel, and put in some transfer boxes. There is about 100 ft of tile left to be laid and we should get to that Monday and complete our finish grade. If it stays dry I hope to get the sod finished next week too.

Today we trimmed some trees around the property. This is a before and after picture of one limb we trimmed that was hanging over #1 fairway. A member requested it be removed and I couldnt see why it needed to stay.

It would be better for the future if I took before and after photos from the same spot and with the same camera. It would make the differences a little easier to see.

#8 drainage project update.....

This project stalled out because of the rain last night. The rain did gives us a chance to check our work before we start trenching in our drainage system. I am shooting for starting our trenching on Friday this week.

#8 drainage project......

Here is the start of the drainage project across #8 fairway. Today we stripped and hauled away the old sod and started moving some dirt around to improve the surface drainage. We also located the irrigation lines. We probably wont hit any of those when we start putting in our subsurface drainage.

If things dry up on the site we could get most of our grading finished tomorrow and start trenching on Wednesday.

tee adjustment............

Wednesday we repainted and adjusted some tees around the course. Some of them have become much to small and even though they are free form tees a couple of them were a little too "free form."

10 or more years ago when I was here it would take me 4 and 1/2 hours to mow tees and collars and now it is taking people 3 hours. Something must have changed and it isn't the mower. This picture is of #6 and I know that it excites everyone that this tee got moved back another 5 yards but if this adjustment allows us to use more of the existing tee then we have accomplished our goal. Our goal is to have flat tees, good grass to hit from, and be able to follow the basic rules for tee setup. One of those rules being the tees should be placed no closer to the back of the tee than two club lengths.

Wednesday we trenched a new drainage line from the wash pad to another "drain field" or ditch. The area around the wash pad was not draining and all the water was starting to limit access to the shop and ruin the surrounding turf. This project should be finished up soon. To further improve the drainage we might add some drainage units to catch the grass clippings before the go into our drainage system.

#1 cart path exit............

The cart path exit on #1 was more than a little rough so at a member's request we fixed it. First we saw cut the end and then we used some of these old pavers that were donated to the club some time ago. We still have enough of these pavers to fix the exit on #2 cart path.