New Drain Along #1 Cart Path

      As the rains come and go they always remind us of where our poorly draining areas throughout the course. The rains last week have really turned the conditions of the course around. So with the great weather that was forecast for this week we decided to knock out a drain along the cart path on #1 that has been on our radar for quite some time. The combination of soils that don't drain well and the trees down the right rough blocking the sun during most of our fall and winter we needed to be able to catch some of the water off the cart path before it ran out into the fairway.



     Even though it was a short week our assistant superintendent Tom dove right in and did all of the trenching with a mini-excavator. Jake and Jose were running around too, hauling dirt, gravel and cleaning up after Tom.  Here's a couple pictures of Tom and his handy work.



     The original idea was to try to drain the water into a larger drain that runs across the fairway towards the lake on #18 but that didn't pan out because the elevation of that drain was too high.. So for the time being we had to make a sump type drain. In the future we may have to trench back down the fairway to one of the other drains that drain back to the lake. The sump drain is not next to the cart path because some of our irrigation pipe was in the way.