Digging to China!

     Ok, the guys are not really digging a tunnel to China. On Wednesday when Jose was mowing the lawns around the clubhouse he came across a section of the lawn that was very saturated. Come to find out after digging a very deep hole, it turns out that an old connection had a small leak and must have been leaking for quite some time. So after a little more digging to expose more of the pipe Hung jumped in and fixed the pipe. He also took the opportunity to install a quick coupler for future use so that we can spot water this section of lawn without having to run hose across the walkways around the clubhouse.

Jose and Enrique removing the dirt

Jose supervising



Hung gluing the pipe



      The water should be turned back on Friday and the hole back filled on Friday as well.

New Addition @ #9 Green

     Once again the maintenance staff has added a new cable and post section along the parking area @ #9 green. As you will see in the pictures below we used to use rope and stakes to keep carts from parking off of the cart path. We were tired of looking at stakes that were always leaning and just didn't have that clean look that the cable and posts provide.  I think it turned out great and also has helped us eliminate some stakes that our mowers used to have to move.



The old look



Driving towards #9 green



Close up of new post/cable





A Little Check-Up

     A couple weeks ago our pump station between #10 & #18 was checked out before the summer irrigation season really starts. Andre from APS Pump Service came up and performed some preventative maintenance on the pumps, filter, VFD and control system. This is one of the most important things we do during the spring season as our irrigation of the course is beginning to ramp up. This time he found a couple of items that were starting to fail and could have cost us some potential failures of the station. We will have Andre up again in July and once more in October as the irrigation season winds down.


Smile Andre





Is That A Mole In #9 Fairway?



     No, that's not a mole or a gopher or any varmint making a trench down #9 fairway. The "dirt" you see in the middle of #9 fairway is actually a mix of a fine mulch, sand and seed. We have begun to try to fill in the French drain that was installed before the opening of the course to help with drainage. For some reason the architect did not think that drainage was necessary in the original design. But as we observed the golf course before the grand opening, we determined that there was going to be a need for some drainage down the entire hole. The soil in #9 is some of the worst in the entire golf course and the water does not infiltrate as rapidly as the architect believed.



New Sprinkler (#17 left rough)

     This last week our team worked hard to get a new sprinkler added in the rough between holes #16 & #17. We determined that the spacing between the existing sprinklers was just too far and wasn't providing enough coverage. This new head should help us with the turf in the rough as well as the fairway.



We will be finishing up with some final touches this week by putting down some seed and mulch on the trench and hooking up the wires to the irrigation clock.